Occupation: Photographer Birth: February 19, 1945
Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me..
What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime..
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me..
This might seem off the track, but an interesting thing to me that others could talk about better than I, but one of the growth areas in photographic….
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use..
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photogr….
The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process... Because photographers... think things through and...….
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on..
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay..
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that..
That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better.".
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of lig….
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, be….
We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make..
Essentially what photography is is life lit up..
People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?" And I always say, "….
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmos….
"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like th….
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes..
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it..
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best pla….