“The whole point of taking pictures is so you don’t have to explain things with words.” - Elliott Erwitt
Wednesday Wisdom
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. “
- Franz Kafka
Wednesday Wisdom
“I felt that my mission in life was to make visible what appears to be invisible and do that as someone who is blind and comes into the world and suddenly begins to see.”
– Bruce Davidson
Wednesday Wisdom
“Every photograph is a certificate of presence.”
-Roland Barthes
Wednesday Wisdom...
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
“There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art anymore. Maybe it never was”
“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
- Robert Frank
In memory of Robert Frank who died yesterday at the age of 94.
(I couldn’t pick my one favorite, so here are four. There could have been many more…