Photo Quote of the Day 07/13/10

One does not for long wrestle a view camera in the wind and heat and cold just to illustrate a philosophy. The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor. 

- Robert Adams

Photo Quote of the Day 06/25/10

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect—a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known. 

- Robert Adams

Photo Quote of the Day 06/22/10

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. 

- Robert Adams

Photo Quote of the Day 04/18/10

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect—a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known. 

- Robert Adams