“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” — Dorothea Lange
Mile Marker 329, 16x22
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“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.” ―- Willa Cather, My Ántonia
Mile Marker 358, 16x22
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“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett
Mile Marker 340, 16x22
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin
Mile Marker 349, 35x51
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published in 1903
“The professions and many lines of commercial business in which photography has become a necessity and the sciences to which it is now an indispensable aid and adjunct are too numerous to mention here; but a few citations may tend to impress my readers with the importance of this science par excellence.
In the practice of law it is a leading factor in the presentation of a certain character of evidence. In surgery, as exemplified in the x-ray, its performance is the marvel of the century. In every department of engineering it is employed to record the progress of the work. In engraving and printing it has become a prime requisite. In the service of the police it is the mute agent which restores the missing to loving friends, and brings the malefactor to the bar of justice. In every branch of commerce, on land and sea, the speechless camera heralds the steady progress of industrial development. It makes all the peoples of the earth familiar with the lives and habits of each other. It carries to the Icelander the warm scenes of the tropics, with their sunny skies and luxuriant flora, and to the simple children of the Amazon it portrays the rugged, rock-ribbed shores of Labrador and the vast fields of ice and monster bergs, which rear their crystal peaks high into the dreary silence of the Arctic circle.
To the microscopist it is his chief dependence for accurate registration. But not until we consider its relation to astronomy, that queen of sciences, does the transcending value of photography blaze out, like a flashing meteor in the sky. With the modern telescope it penetrates the depths of space, and in one night obtains plates of the constellation of the Pleiades more rigidly accurate than patient astronomers have been able to obtain in a score of years without its aid. It wrests from the solar mass the secrets of ages, and records the stupendous convulsions and explosions which occur upon its surface and preserves the immutable data of this wonderful phenomena for generations yet to come that they may be brought through the instrumentality of photography, into that relation with the celestial bodies which will enable the coming higher man to solve the great problems of human life.”
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” —Henri Cartier-Bresson
Mile Marker 341, 35x51
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This week while I was in Milwaukee I was gifted this book by our good friend, sculptor Mark Winter. He probably thought I could use a few pointers.
A Complete Illustrated Hand-Book on the Modern Practices of Photography In All Its Various Branches
by T Stith Baldwin
Published in Chicago, Illinois 1903 Continue reading
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams
Mile Marker 359, 16x22
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“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a god made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” – Paul Cezanne
MIle Marker 345, 22x34
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