Mildly contemptible self-indulgent dilettante
“I have to admit that there is another reason I like photographers — they don’t tempt me to envy. The profession is short on dignity: […]
robert adams
Out of nothing
To me, one way of looking at this odd building is as some strange creature peering out over the makeshift wooden fence. It’s not threatening […]
To find their way to art, which is their consolation
“Paradoxically, photographers must also face the threat that their vision may one day be denied them. Their capacity to find their way to art, which […]
For the joy of seeing
“Why is photography, like the other arts, that kind of intoxication? And a quieter pleasure too, so that occasionally photographers discover tears in their eyes […]
Beauty and Form
Aesthetics is usually defined as “a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful and with judgments concerning beauty.” I recall the endurance […]