Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.