There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Category Archive: 1942
Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.
Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment’s deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.
The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‘Republic,’ and then I had to go over that five times or something.
Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.
The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.