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Monday Missive — January 11, 2021

Quotes “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” — Jonathan Swift “I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.” — Rabih Alameddine “I’m not a nice girl; I’m a photographer.” — Berenice Abbott – On being told … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — October 12, 2020

Quotes “ . . . the value of the photographer’s work is revealed through the images’ invisible, deep world, one that is the viewer’s intrinsic experience.” — Sajin Paik “To the degree that I apprehend acclaim, I think, ‘Ah, it’s … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — September 7, 2020

Quotes “I was told that the best way to learn to make photographs is to make a lot of them, and that’s impossible to argue with.” — David duChemin “A photographer’s work is given shape and style by his personal … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — October 21, 2019

Quotes “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.” — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings “Pilgrim leaves crowd the air with their falling every October. The journey is always the same.” — Linda … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — May 6, 2019

Quotes “I decided to accept as true my own thinking. I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain, and I am quite free.” — Georgia O’Keeffe via Cole Thompson “Sometimes you have … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — January 28, 2019

Quotes “The more personal you make your work, the more universal it becomes.” — Katrin Eismann “The enemy of art is the total lack of limitations.” — Orson Wells “I chose nature photography as a way of capturing and sharing … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — November 12, 2018

Quotes “Pilgrim leaves crowd the air with their falling every October. The journey is always the same.” — Linda Pastan “The ritual sadness of the season is more voluptuous than joy.” — Linda Pastan “Art is, or ought to be, … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — October 29, 2018

Quotes “The mystery isn’t in the technique, it’s in each of us.” — Harry Callahan, More Joy of Photography by Eastman Kodak (Editor) “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” — … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — October 15, 2018

Quotes “The conversations are exasperated, the verdicts swift, conclusive and seemingly absolute. The goal is to protect and condemn work, not for its quality, per se, but for its values. Is this art or artist, this character, this joke bad … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — July 9, 2018

Quotes “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” — John Maeda “On some level art is first an act arising from the self. Only then can it be concerned about speaking to, engaging with, or pleasing others. … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — April 16, 2018

Quotes “The photographer is like the cod which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.” — George Bernard Shaw “Flow happens when our vision demands the fullness of our craft and pulls us into a state … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — February 5, 2017

Quotes “Begin. With the humility of someone who’s not sure, and the excitement of someone who knows that it’s possible.” Posted by Seth Godin on January 25, 2018 “Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.” … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — July 10, 2017

Quotes “Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil.” — Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy “Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — January 23, 2017

Quotes “Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It’s the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.” – Chuck Close “I … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – January 16, 2017

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist, and this innerlife will result in his personal vision of the world.” – Edward Hopper “Broken and broken again on the sea, the moon so easily mends.” … Continue reading

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