“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” — Orson Welles In the case of a cinematic camera that would involve pace, meter, cadence and rhythm in addition to composition and proper lighting; perhaps even requiring a editor/poet to maintain that which the camera captured. A […]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
words bouncing off visions
“I trust pictures, but no pictures in my world – because I know what goes on.” — Naomi Campbell So, sitting in the kitchen, reading The Nation, or rather articles within, which refer to the life, times and work of Roberto Bolaño, who said, “Then what is writing of quality? Well, what it’s always been: […]
Discovery: see what i’ve never seen (right where i am)
“My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” — Diane Arbus I feel the same. A close second favorite thing is – to see that which I’ve never seen right where i’ve always been. To feel discovery in the here and now. A day without discovery feels dull; without the touch of spirit.
A slice from time (present) to stir memory (past) and imagination (future)
“…photographs open doors into the past but they also allow a look into the future.” — Sally Mann Really? How so Sally? Don’t think so. Capture the precise present in the present that’s the remarkable thing about the still photograph – right then and there – done – after the exposure the photograph becomes an archaeological […]
To photograph = to see
“In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.” — Emile Zola still feeling spring’s chill morning provides designs which tantalize the eye (click image for larger view)
Portraits with real heart and soul
“Light is the shape and play of my thought… my reason for being a photographer.” — Barbara Morgan My niece, Ellie, asked me to make photographs of she and her fiance, Sean, on Easter Sunday. She had long kept the idea of creating facsimiles for photographs I made of her parents some 39 years earlier. […]
Spring arrives along with 6″-8″ of snow
“When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.” – Minor White Second day of spring arrives in Mequon with a prediction of 6 – 10 inches of snow. At 11:00 am I point the camera out my office door to document the arrival of spring. (click image for larger view)
“If I knew how to… “
“If I knew how to make a good photograph, I’d do it every time.” – Robert Doisneau. “…an exercise in vigilance; the hope of noticing something which will make me understand more clearly what still resists being understood; what still lies obscured but at least now [is] glimpsed.” Dan Frank used these words to describe his […]
Catching a moment… passing… and true.
“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” – Jacques-Henri Lartigue sometimes we are still to catch that which passes by sometimes we pass by that which lies in stillness suddenly all made perfect sense; the jungle filled with songs, sex, fights, flights… care fully, slipping within transparent designs posing as true visions
Pictures as thoughts?
“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.” – Sir Joshua Reynolds Oh dear; do your rooms have quality thoughts hanging about? While waiting for my take-out Mu Shu Shrimp last evening I thought… (click images for larger view) then it occurred to me that… and yet… what do you think?