METAPHORS

LITERAL OR NOT?

MINOR WHITE

“One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. “

PACIFIC, DEVIL’S SLIDE, CALIFORNIA, 1947

ROAD AND POPLAR TREES, IN THE VICINITY OF NAPLES AND DANSVILLE NEW YORK, 1955

WINDOWSILL DAYDREAMING, 1955

SNOW ON GARAGE DOOR, ROCHESTER NEW YORK, 1960

ALFRED STIEGLITZ

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

ICY NIGHT, 1893

THE STEERAGE, 1907

FROM THE BACK WINDOW, “921” 1915

PAUL STRAND, 1919

GEORGIA O’KEEFE, 1931

PAUL CAPONIGRO

"Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature."

LEAF ON SCREEN IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS 1960

RUNNING WHITE DEER COUNTY WICKLOW, IRELAND 1967

OLSON HOUSE CUSHING, MAINE 1999