I Believe In Beauty. I

The Dismal Half-baked Images Of The Average "reportage" And "documentary" Photography Are Self Dammning... The Slick Manner, The Slightly Obscure Significance, The Esoteric Fear Of Simple Beauty For Its Own Sake - I Am Deeply Concerned With These Manifestations Of Decay. Gene Smith's Work Validates My Most Vigorous Convictions That If The Documentary Photographs Is To Be Truly Effective It Must Contain Elements Of Art, Intensity, Fine Craft And Spirituality. All These His Work Contains And We May Turn To His Work With Gratitude, Appreciation And Great Respect.

Let Us Leave A Splendid Legacy For Our Children...let Us Turn To Them And Say, This You Inherit: Guard It Well, For It Is Far More Precious Than Money...and Once Destroyed, Nature's Beauty Cannot Be Repurchased At Any Price.

I Have Often Had A Retrospective Vision Where Everything In My Past Life Seems To Fall With Significance Into Logical Sequence. Intuition, Suspicion, Or Confidence In New Ventures; There Is A Strange Strain Within Me When Advantage Is Not Taken Of Some Situation, The Immediacy Of Recognition Of The Rightness Or Wrongness Of A Mood, A Response, A Decision - They Are So Often Valid That I Am Increasingly Convinced That We Have Yet To Grasp The Reality Of Existence.

The Skies And Land Are So Enormous, And The Detail So Precise And Exquisite That Wherever You Are You Are Isolated In A Glowing World Between The Macro And The Micro.

I Can Look At A Fine Art Photograph And Sometimes I Can Hear Music.