You Are The Self, That Perfect Immutable

Darkroom Work Had, After All, Never Interested Me Except As A Means To An End; The Place I Wanted To Be Was Outside In The Light.

... If We Consider The Difference Between William Henry Jackson Packing In His Camera By Mule, And The Person Stepping For A Moment From His Car To Take A Picture With His Instamatic, It Becomes Clear How Some Of Our Space Has Vanished; If The Time It Takes To Cross Space Is A Way By Which We Define It, Then To Arrive At A View Of Space 'in No Time' Is To Have Denied Its Reality.

Change No One. Change Nothing. React To No One, React To Nothing. Do Not Live In The Past And Do Not, Worry About The Future. Stay In The Eternal Now, Where All Is Well. After All You Are Me And I Am You. There's No Difference. Do Not React To The World. Do Not Even React To Your Own Body. Do Not Even React To Your Own Thoughts. Learn To Become The Witness. Learn To Be Quiet.

Among The Most Compelling Truths In Some Of The Early Photographs Is Their Implication Of Silence.

I Have Asked Students At The Beginning Of Their Careers, What Things Of That Sort Might Haunt Them – What Things They Must Photograph, Things They Have To Try To Shoot Even Before They Master The Intricacies Of Making Dye Transfer Prints.