It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.