If art has a function it’s probably not social reform. I think it’s really more private than that. It’s to try to give people enough hope so that they have the courage to re-engage each day, as an individual, in their heart and thinking.
Robert Adams
Category: thoughts
southern boundary – joshua tree national park
It makes for one hell of a backyard…
words from helen levitt
I never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes… I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.
Helen Levitt
speaks for itself
You know, if you spend enough time roaming our public lands you somehow learn to spot the signs of where people have camped.
words from baltz
I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers – the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams – came for a privileged view of nature. But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite; it took me to shopping centers, and gas stations and all the other unhealthy growth that flourished beside the highway. It was a landscape that no one else had much interest in looking at. Other than me.
Lewis Baltz
chuparosa and deadwood in space
Space. It’s one of the dominant features of this desert. Along with the sun. Sun and space.
How to convey the immensity of the space and the intensity of the sun in a picture and still have a coherent photo? One that bites, that gives a sense of the stark, harsh, bare-bones unforgiving power of the desert? I’m working on it…
powerful words
If you haven’t gone too far you haven’t gone far enough.
I can’t for the life of me remember who said this, but they are powerful words.
desert topographics 