"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique- these too are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation. Art, said Alfred Stiegliz, is the affirmation of life. And life, or its eternal evidence, is everywhere. Some photographers take reality as the sculptors take wood and stone and upon it impose the dominations of their own thought and spirit. Others come bfore reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Expressions without doctrine, my photographs are presented as ends in themselves, images of the endless movement of the world."
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