Re: Quotation

[Mike King <mikeking@cableone.net>]

Mortensen was a real character, a dedicated artist and about as far from Ansel Adams as one could get in technique, I don't believe AA cared for him or his photos very much but I find things I like about both artists and their work.

 

darkroommike

 

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----- Original Message -----

From: Marilyn

To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students

Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:56 AM

Subject: Quotation

A friend of mine gave me some of his old photography books (bless him), and I like this quotation in the front of one of the books.  The book is Mortensen on the Negative, by William Mortensen, Simon and Schuster, 1940.

 

The quotation is:

 

"Dedicated to the real photographers of the world - to those who, with their second-hand equipment and their makeshift darkrooms, are today fighting their solitary battles with their recalcitrant medium, not for money or for glory, but because they would rather make pictures than anything else in the world."

 

 I just thought PF members would enjoy it.

 

Marilyn