I Believe Photography Is A Tool To

I Can't Verbalize The Internal Meaning Of Pictures Whatsoever. Some Of My Friends Can At Very Mystical Levels, But I Prefer To Say That, If I Feel Something Strongly, I Would Make A Photograph, That Would Be The Equivalent Of What I Saw And Felt.

There Are Worlds Of Experience Beyond The World Of The Aggressive Man, Beyond History, And Beyond Science. The Moods And Qualities Of Nature And The Revelations Of Great Art Are Equally Difficult To Define; We Can Grasp Them Only In The Depths Of Our Perceptive Spirit.

I Expect To Retire To A Fine-grained Heaven Where The Temperatures Are Always Consistent, Where The Images Slide Before One's Eyes In A Continual Cascade Of Form And Meaning.

Millions Of Men Have Lived To Fight, Build Palaces And Boundaries, Shape Destinies And Societies; But The Compelling Force Of All Times Has Been The Force Of Originality And Creation Profoundly Affecting The Roots Of Human Spirit.

These People Live Again In Print As Intensely As When Their Images Were Captured On Old Dry Plates Of Sixty Years Ago... I Am Walking In Their Alleys, Standing In Their Rooms And Sheds And Workshops, Looking In And Out Of Their Windows. Any They In Turn Seem To Be Aware Of Me.