New Blog: GIS and Science

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Imagination

"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus."

-- Mark Twain

Tom Paiva

The work of Tom Paiva.

How To Be Yourself

"To those of you who will begin, as I did, at an early age to be interested in creative effort, I have a word or two to say: Follow no one. Only you can lead yourself. Be open-minded and ready to reject every extraneous influence. Use your own. Talk is cheap; let others talk. Pay no attention to them or to me. Shun them and me with your self-discipline. Value your freedom from the shackles of the strait jacket. A rose is a rose regardless of its position on the bush. Approach your line of activity as an individual. Be independent. There is but one law to obey, the law of freedom: and obedience to that law is liberty."

--Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs

Something New

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."

--Diane Arbus

Austin Granger: Point Reyes V

Austin Granger's Point Reyes V portfolio.

Confusuion

"I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level."

-- Jerry Uelsmann

Impossible Exchange

"When the world, or reality, finds its artificial equivalent in the virtual, it becomes useless."

-- Jean Baudrillard

Illusions

"In photography we talk about illusions."

--John Sexton

Huntington Witherill: Chariots of Desire

Huntington Witherill's Chariots of Desire collection.

Portraits

"The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike."

-- Imogen Cunningham

Huntington Witherill: Farewell to the Revolution

Huntington Witherill's Farewell to the Revolution essay.

Personal Vision

"Your photography is a record of your living--for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision."

-- Paul Strand

Success

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

-- Pablo Picasso