February 2012
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The thing that interests me about photography and why it’s different from...
– I’m currently writing a little bit about my ‘style’ of photography for a certain photography magazine - and about how I developed it. It is such a difficult thing to write about (besides the fact that I’m no writer) - but on this topic I always think of what Chuck Close has...
Creative Something: What you imagine, you can... →
Consider the fact that this statement is truer today than any other time in history before. If you’re reading this, you have access to an infinity of options for making anything you imagine a reality.
No matter what step of the creative process you’re in – believing you’re not creative, not knowing how to start, unable to get unstuck, not having the abilities to do the work yourself – all you...
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January 2012
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December 2011
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A Richard Avedon Essay – “Be kind to me” on...
I once went to Washington for what they call a “photo opportunity” with Henry Kissinger. As I led him to the camera, he said a puzzling thing. He said, “Be kind to me.” I wish there had been time to ask him exactly what he meant, although it’s probably clear. Now, Kissinger knows a lot about manipulation, so to hear his concern about being manipulated really made me think. What did he mean? What...
Don’t worry about being better than anybody you know personally or whose work...
– Via aphotoeditor
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The best advice I could possibly give you, and forgive me if this seems glib, is...
– aphotoeditor
November 2011
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
– Oscar Wilde
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October 2011
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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...
– Via Brainpickings
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You have more computing power in your pocket than it took to send men to the...
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September 2011
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August 2011
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But if information was once grist for ideas, over the last decade it has become...
– The Elusive Big Idea.