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Photography Is An Austere And Blazing Poetry Of The Real.

We Either Have Wild Places Or We Don't. We Admit The Spiritual-emotional Validity Of Wild, Beautiful Places Or We Don't. We Have A Philosophy Of Simplicity Of Experience In These Wild Places Or We Don't. We Admit An Almost Religious Devotion To The Clean Exposition Of The Wild, Natural Earth Or We Don't.

All I Can Do In My Writing Is To Stimulate A Certain Amount Of Thought, Clarify Some Technical Facts And Date My Work. But When I Preach Sharpness, Brilliancy, Scale, Etc., I Am Just Mouthing Words, Because No Words Can Really Describe Those Terms And Qualities It Takes The Actual Print To Say, “here It Is.

I Never Know In Advance What I Will Photograph,...i Go Out Into The World And Hope I Will Come Across Something That Imperatively Interests Me. I Am Addicted To The Found Object. I Have No Doubt That I Will Continue To Make Photographs Till My Last Breath.

Photography Is More Than A Medium For Factual Communication Of Ideas. It Is A Creative Art.