Occupation: Photographer Birth: February 20, 1902 Death: April 22, 1984
We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.".
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate..
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the musi….
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire..
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, ….
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold..
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept..
I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, ….
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces..
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world..
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit..
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 ….
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration..
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion..
Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras..
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 so….
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, conce….
If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph..
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 ….
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys a….
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in a….