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“It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.”

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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

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Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

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What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of…

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Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

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