Category: thoughts

I don’t go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that’s reason enough to photograph it.

Henry Wessel Jr.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

Saul Leiter

Most musicians I know don’t just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting the notes lead them from one place to another. Taking still photographs is like that. It is a generative process. It pulls you along.

Henry Wessel Jr.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

William Eggleston

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That’s why I ran to the woods.

Jim Harrison

…the photography world is not unlike the corporate situation from which I narrowly escaped. Hardheartedness and organizational thinking have stifled creativity and instilled conformity in many photographers. Success, most easily achieved by seeming to ‘extend tradition,’ seems to be more important than clear perception and truthful representation.

Chauncey Hare