quotes

 

 

 

Carlo Valkenborgh

 

To get past beautiful 

The art of leaving out

The content is more important than the technique

With your minds eye.

 

 

 

Charles Dickens

 

A tale of two cities

 

 

 

William Boyd

 

I have to have the city in my life

- I'm essentially urban by nature -

and also the prospect and reality of travel. Otherwise I'll desicate and die.

 

 

 

Roland Barthes

 

On photographie des choses pour se les chasser de l'esprit.

 

 

 

Gerry Badger

 

When asked why Atget was so important,

Charles Harbutt's reply unerringly found the heart of the matter,

"Because of where he stood."

 

 

 

Robert Adams

 

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities -

geography, autobiography and metaphor.

Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring,

autobiography is frequently trivial,

and metaphor can be dubious.

But taken together...

the three kinds of information strenghen each other

and reinforce what we all work to keep intact -

an affection for life.

 

 

 

Alfred Stieglitz

 

If the writer is not mistaken,

the pictures are taken with a pin-hole instead of a lens,

the result being delightful delicacy of atmosphere, suggestiveness.