Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.