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#828 - Miho Kajioka
BK0061, 2014
“I always had a strange feeling about how we order time into the past, present and future, as I never really felt that way."
~ Miho Kajioka
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#824 - Jeffrey Conley
Merced River and Lower Brother, Yosemite National Park, 1992/Printed 2008
“For as long as I can remember I have felt most at peace outdoors. Nature has always been my refuge and sanctuary. I find the natural world to be endlessly wondrous in it’s range of character and texture, from moments of delicate intimacy and subtlety to the massively expansive and powerful”
~Jeffrey Conley
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#810 - John Szarkowski
Farm Near Caledonia, Minnesota, 1957/Printed 2007
"It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about."
~ John Szarkowski
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#806 - Ansel Adams
Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California , 1948 (Printed 1981)
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in it’s entirety. And the expression of what one feels should be set forth in terms of simple devotion to the medium - a statement of the utmost clarity and perfection possible under the conditions of creation and production”
~Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)“Ansel Adams was one of the great photographers of this century. He was also one of the best loved spokespersons for the obligations we owe to the natural world. It has been easy to confuse the related but distinct achievements that earned him these twin honors. Although he devoted a lifetime to the cause of wilderness preservation, Adams did not photograph the landscape as a matter of social service but as a form of private worship. It was his own soul that he was trying to save. His great work was done under the stimulus of a profound and mystical experience of the natural world”
John Szarkowski
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#3 - Wynn Bullock
Woman's Hands, 1956 (printed 1991)
Wynn Bullock, to my mind, is one the greatest 20th Century photographers. Often eclipsed by his more well known contemporaries, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. This is a haunting portrait of his mother’s hands taken in his modest house in Carmel in 1956. The beauty of the print just knocks me out and is the definition of the word “primal”.