When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.