In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around..

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878..

Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutt….

Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surroundi….

[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or la….