’20/20′ (20 colour photos)
Have a look at a new gallery of photos, 20/20, embedded below. Best viewed by clicking on the first thumbnail and using your keyboard arrows […]
A clean, well-lighted place
“Otherworld”
I’ve posted a new selection of photos called “Otherworld“.
Feedback loop
“Technique must be solid, positive, but elastic, must not fall into formula, must adapt itself to the idea. And for each new idea there must […]
A photographer solves a picture
“When three-dimensional space is projected monocularly on to a plane, relationships are created that did not exist before the picture was taken. Things in the […]
To find their way to art, which is their consolation
“Paradoxically, photographers must also face the threat that their vision may one day be denied them. Their capacity to find their way to art, which […]
For the joy of seeing
“Why is photography, like the other arts, that kind of intoxication? And a quieter pleasure too, so that occasionally photographers discover tears in their eyes […]
No thing is beautiful
“The real study of an art student is more of a development of that sensitive nature and appreciative imagination with which he was so fully […]
“Grata Non Grata”
A new series called “Grata Non Grata” can be seen by clicking below.
They made their language. You make yours.
Quotes from The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri: “The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to […]
Stones to step on or stones to avoid
“Every student should put down in some form or other his findings. All any man can hope to do is to add his fragment to […]
Beauty rests in the expression
“Artists are sometimes asked, “Why do you paint ugly and not beautiful things?” The questioner rarely hesitates in his judgment of what is beautiful and […]
All good drawing or painting is compositional
“Here is the model with light on his face, a white collar, a brown coat, black tie, black hair, gray background. I have named enough […]
The great departure
“The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture — however unreasonable this may sound. The picture, if a picture results, is […]
An artist has got to get acquainted with himself
“I know I have said a lot when I say, “You can do anything you want to do.” But I mean it. There is reason […]
Approved taste
“One of the great difficulties of an art student is to decide between his own natural impressions and what he thinks should be his impressions. […]