Occupation: Photographer Birth: June 11, 1934
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our ….
The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them..
My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteres….
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious..
It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me..
Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working..
I have gradually confused photography with life..
Photography is just light remembering itself..
The camera basically is a license to explore..
Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself..
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography..
Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize….
The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography..
The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I ….
My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas..
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is….
I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols ….
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self….
One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twenti….
The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working..
The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality.