Serious about not being serious.
Elliott Erwitt is one of my favorite photographers. He said this about his fellow photographer Marc Riboud but it works for him also. ...
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....
