My Wife - She Could Help Me

The Dismal Half-baked Images Of The Average "reportage" And "documentary" Photography Are Self Dammning... The Slick Manner, The Slightly Obscure Significance, The Esoteric Fear Of Simple Beauty For Its Own Sake - I Am Deeply Concerned With These Manifestations Of Decay. Gene Smith's Work Validates My Most Vigorous Convictions That If The Documentary Photographs Is To Be Truly Effective It Must Contain Elements Of Art, Intensity, Fine Craft And Spirituality. All These His Work Contains And We May Turn To His Work With Gratitude, Appreciation And Great Respect.

I Know That I Am One With Beauty And That My Comrades Are One. Let Our Souls Be Mountains, Let Our Spirits Be Stars, Let Our Hearts Be Worlds.

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 Do Not Think There Is Any Question Of Photography Being An Art Form!

I Eagerly Await New Concepts And Processes. I Believe That The Electronic Image Will Be The Next Major Advance. Such Systems Will Have Their Own Inherent And Inescapable Structural Characteristics, And The Artist And Functional Practitioner Will Again Strive To Comprehend And Control Them.