Robert Frank

"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice." — Robert Frank

Larry Fink on the essence of his photography

“I have one thing I keep on stressing, and have all my life. There’s no such thing as a good picture made of something which you haven’t experienced. If you just go out to make a picture just for the sake of making a picture, [that’s] all fine and dandy. But more than likely, the only reason that a picture lives in its own breath is because you yourself have been gasping in front of something which astounded you in some silent way, or subtle way, or bombastic way. Something that has taken your gut out, turned it around, and mixed it up. And you go: How can I? Is it possible? The question you arrive at, when you photograph—Is it possible?— and of course it’s not possible to translate what’s in your mind, through a camera. That’s why we work: to make it possible.”

Larry Fink at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph

Sally Mann

Sally Mann, in the New York Times, on her intimate, unflinching, decades-long project photographing her own children, and the overwhelming public response to her work. Her writing is as eloquent and beautiful as are her photographs. 

High Museum

The High has a deep permanent photography collection and the current exhibitions are always worth at least one visit. I also enjoy hanging out and people watching in the lobby.

Atlanta Beltline

New streetlights, new bridge, new apartments, even the art is in place, all waiting for the Atlanta BeltLine Eastside Trail to extend a little further south. Maybe the most significant urban redevelopment project in the US right now.

Atlanta Beltline at Edgewood Ave

Steve Schapiro

I recently had the chance to hear Steve Schapiro talk about his experiences covering the civil rights movement while working for Life. In a seemingly off hand aside, he gave this pithy advice: "Every photo should have emotion, design, information. The most important of these for me is emotion."

Builder Levy

I had the wonderful opportunity to hear Builder Levy speak about his career and a number of his most iconic photographs last week. At 73 he remains as passionate as ever about issues of social justice. Inspiring and willing to take time to talk about everything, from why he embarked on his monumental Appalachia project (he was inspired as a boy by a Woody Guthrie song about coal miners) to his choices on composition, exposure and printing techniques on individual photographs in the show.