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Monday Missive — December 17, 2018

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “Art Is Not About Understanding. Or Mastery. It is about doing and experience.” — Jerry Saltz “Hide secrets in your work.” — Jerry Saltz “Never just say, “You tell me what it is.” That’s pompous bullshit. When it comes … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — October 29, 2018

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Rich

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

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Rich

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 — September 10, 2018

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.” — Sarah Moon “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” — Ralph Hattersley “Great photography is about depth … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — August 13, 2018

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “Reality-based reality: It’s ever easier to weave our own reality … . We can invent our own rules, create our own theories, fabricate our own ‘facts’. It turns out, though, that when your reality is based on actual reality, … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — July 30, 2018

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “Photography offers so many different ways to tell a story.” — Fiona Struengmann in an interview with Cat Lachowskyj in Lens Culture “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.” – Paul Klee “Creativity isn’t about wild … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — June 18, 2018

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “But Kandinsky did not intend for his theories to be prescriptive. Artmaking, he insisted, was about freedom.” — From How to Be an Artist, According to Wassily Kandinsky, by Rachel Lebowitz, Jun 12, 2017, Artsy.net “Quitting merely because you’re … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — May 28, 2018

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “Be unafraid of your imagination.” — Joe McNally in Creative Live “Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson “Let’s make things exist and then judge later. Don’t cancel the process of creativity too early: … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — May 14, 2018

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” -– Diane Arbus “The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.” — Imogen Cunningham “Once a woman … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — April 30, 2018

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Rich

Quotes The Trap of Listening to Feedback You’re devoting your life to making something important. … Something that matters. Mostly, something that hasn’t been done before, that’s going to bend the curve and make an impact. If you begin and … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — April 2, 2018

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “Critics are useful, but remember that the first to believe in your work must be you.” – Lorenzo Meloni “Sometimes there’s a unique picture whose composition possesses such vigour and richness and whose content so radiates outward from it … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — March 12, 2018

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.” – Bill Brandt “And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — February 26, 2018

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “What I’m documenting can be hard to distill, because it’s all around us like the air we breathe. I often need to go to a place where I can capture extreme moments.” – Lauren Greenfield “I wanted to make … Continue reading →

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