When You Abide In The

Why Is Form Beautiful? Because, I Think, It Helps Us Confront Our Worst Fear: The Suspicion That Life May Be Chaos And That Therefore Our Suffering Is Without Meaning.

Henry James Proposed Asking Of Art Three Modest And Appropriate Questions: What Is The Artist Trying To Do? Does He Do It? Was It Worth Doing?

Still Photographs Often Differ From Life More By Their Silence Than By The Immobility Of Their Subjects. Landscape Pictures Tend To Converge With Life, However, On Summer Nights, When The Sounds Outside, After We Call In Children And Close Garage Doors, Are Small - The Whir Of Moths, The Snap Of A Stick.

Whatever Power There Is In The Urban Pictures Is Bound To The Closeness With Which They Skirt Banality. For A Shot To Be Good — Suggestive Of More Than Just What It Is — It Has To Come Perilously Near Being Bad, Just A View Of Stuff.

Darkroom Work Had, After All, Never Interested Me Except As A Means To An End; The Place I Wanted To Be Was Outside In The Light.