Photography Is A Lot Like Telling A

This Benefit Of Seeing...can Come Only If You Pause A While, Extricate Yourself From The Maddening Mob Of Quick Impressions Ceaselessly Battering Our Lives, And Look Thoughtfully At A Quiet Image...the Viewer Must Be Willing To Pause, To Look Again, To Meditate.

When You Are Doing A Lot Of Hard Fast Field Work, It's A Physical Necessity To Forget Every Day. You Can't Try To Remember It In Any Continuity. You Get So Burdened If You Try To Do It The Other Way. You Can't Dictate To Your Material... We Found Our Way In, Slid In On The Edges. We Used Our Hunches. And It Was Hard, Hard Living.

Photography Is A Lot Like Telling A Large Predatory Cat What To Do-while An Audience Of People You Can't See Watches You.

I've Never Not Been Sure That I Was A Photographer Any More Than You Would Not Be Sure You Were Yourself. I Was A Photographer, Or Wanting To Be A Photographer, Or Beginning - But Some Phase Of Photographer I've Always Been.

I Believe That What We Call Beautiful Is Generally A By-product.