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I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than…

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The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not…
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I…
I find that when one has worked long enough, technical know-how becomes almost irrelevant. In photography, it's not difficult to reach a…
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as…
It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out…
The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time,…
Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the…
I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are…

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I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what… — Susan Sontag
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as… — Michael Kenna
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does… — William H. Gass
Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements -… — Jean-Claude Ellena
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Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes.… — Karl Lagerfeld
It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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