Camera Shy.
John Loengard, Life magazine photographer and later photo editor, said of photographing the great Andre Kertesz "He was a very difficult...
"It is the photo that takes you."
"Sylvia in a Shadow" Sylvia, violinist, artist, museum docent, and I were lunching with an art historian mutual friend. We were...
Pictorialists? Me?
A short while back I went on a walk/photography tour of Seattle's Japan Town -- along Main Street and Jackson in the International...
In the manner of Edward Hopper?
The name "Edward Hopper" immediately suggests his signature paintings -- "Nighthawks", "Chop Suey" ..... I was pouring over the catalog...
Mademoiselle Zara
Ever since becoming aware of Robert Doisneau's work (several decades) it remains one of the "go-to" sources when my battery needs...
And now for something completely different.
I grew up in rural Illinois and Edgar Lee Masters' book "The Spoon River Anthology" was pretty much required reading in high school. ...
A successful portrait sitting ....
Wah Lui (owner of the Yuan Lui studios) said that a successful portrait sitting is one in which I get at least one exposure that both the...
"You can't take funny pictures if you don't live in a funny world."
Elliott Erwitt sure lives in a funny world. Once in a while somebody reminds me that I do live in a funny world -- or at least visit it...
Light is all I have to work with.
Ruth Bernhard was right. If you are a photographer you are required to be very conscious of light. It's the only raw material you have....
Between complicated and difficult
My Notebook (thanks, Doug). "There's a big difference between complicated and difficult" I wrote this in my notebook at a gallery talk by...
