John Sexton Quotes

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• For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in…
• And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame…
• I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.
• In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so…
• When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter…
• And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests.…
• And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of…
• Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it,…
• He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
• I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling…
• I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before,…
• In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I…
• It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground…
• It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like…
• One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager…
• So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural…
• The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking…
• Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach…
• We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.
• Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such…

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