My Photo Life

I like digital cameras because they allow you to reminisce immediately. - Demetri Martin

Photography seems to be the most literary of the graphic arts. - Walker Evans

I started reading this biography on a trip this past winter: I saved a few quotes from it. Here are 2 from the introduction that I particul...

I've always wished I could write songs the way he takes pictures. - Bruce Springsteen on Robert Frank (Supposedly, Springsteen has multi...

I've been reading "Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists" these last few weeks. I found an interesting...

I found this outside of the art room at Blake High School in Minneapolis: "Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks...

The start of Chapter 3 in "Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation" mentions something that I've pondered a lot. And it shares 3...

As someone who just had a solo exhibition consisting of work shot on a 16-year-old digital camera, I tend to agree.

Alec Soth posted something on Instagram recently that was worth saving and remembering. Here was the text, and the 2 images follow: 2002 2...

I miss working with my Holga. And when we went to "remote learning" last year, I had to scrap my Holga-based project in my Advanc...

Today everything exists to end in a photograph. - Susan Sontag (in 1977)

Here's an interesting 2 paragraphs from Capturing the Light as the authors wrote about Talbot and The Pencil of Nature: In developing t...

Here are 3 recent photography-related links... just things I found interesting: • ONE: Highest Resolution Photo of the Sun : About a week ag...

“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head...

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. -Lewis Hine

First, a comic from Things In Squares : And here's a quote from author Kurt Vonnegut (posted by The Mind Unleashed ):

I recently came across this Robert Mapplethorpe quote: I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn'...