“Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” - Jason Peterson

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.” -Joan Miro

“The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?” – Edward Weston

“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” - Orson Welles

On June 12, 1982, one million people assembled in New York City for what was likely (up to now) the largest single-city demonstration in American history, a nuclear-freeze protest coming at a saber-rattling peak of the Cold War. While most people have either overlooked that huge event from 40-plus years ago or never heard of it in the first place, I remember the protest because I was there. I went to Central Park with my camera. Why aren’t people today pushing back against the apocalyptic hellscape of nuclear war?

“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” - Destin Sparks

“Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.” – Bill Brandt

“Photography has nothing to do with cameras.” - Lucas Gentry

“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” - Paul Strand

May their memory be a blessing.

The huge success of the 1973 movie "Paper Moon" with Ryan O'Neal and his Oscar-winning daughter Tatum inspired ABC to create a TV knockoff, also titled "Paper Moon." The show lasted one season. To introduce the show's 11-year-old star, Jodie Foster, the network called a press conference. Not much of one. Only two people showed up to a bare corporate room. They were editor Linda Ann Copersino of Teen Life magazine fame and me, the photographer. I felt bad for Jodie, just us two to greet her, a PR person at her side, Linda asking questions, me snapping. I most remember how much this young woman, someone new to me, impressed us with her calm nature and quiet maturity.

Intimacy is an art, as is the heart.

“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” – Sally Mann

“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.” – Wayne Miller

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” - Diane Arbus

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” – Susan Sontag

“Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.” – Sebastian Smee