Gary Miller (gmphotos@earthlink.net)
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:30:04 -0700
All this talk about saving negatives, editioning, what materials,
techniques, etcetera in the past few days has been quite interesting. But
let me tell you the quote that is placed over my desk and one that I spied
today when I took a break and looked up from my computer email. It is a
wonderful quote from Edward Steichen, who remains very unique in that he was
a very accomplished painter and photographer, and also a technically
brilliant person.
"When an artist of any kind looks at his subject, he looks with everything
he is. Everything that he has lived, learned, observed, and experienced
combines to enable him to identify himself with the subject and look with
insight, perception, imagination, and understanding. The technical process
simply serves as a vehicle of transcription and not as the art."
Edward Steichen
'A Life in Photography'
Edward Weston had a quote along similar lines, but I do not have it here at
the moment. But the jist of it was that the art of the photograph is the
vision/mind of the photographer, not all the technical stuff that was used
to transcribe it into a finished product. It is in his 'Daybooks' in Volume
I somewhere. I will try to locate it for all to savor.
Gary Miller
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