US "landscape photographer, conservationist".
He helped establish photography as an art form while capturing the beauty of western U.S.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
[I]f photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output.
