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Hiroshigé Woodblock Prints - Strange - 1925

Hiroshige left behind at his death, at age 62 in 1894, a farewell poem:

p 18

"The Eastern City

I leave. And - without a brush -

to see new scenes

I take the long road

that leads to the distant West."

5-17-84

John Szarkowski interview in Art News - May 84

p 69 Photographers in this country are, compared to the rest of the world, enormously well educated in terms of their own tradition. ... the general level of understanding of what has been done so far, and therefore an intuitive sense of where the end of the dining board may be now, is remarkably sophisticated in this country.

It is form above all that is talent.

Henry James

p 186 Theory of Fiction - James - ed. Miller - 1972

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Night City - car headlights illuminating fragments of street: worn stone curbs, angular mailbox legs, bleached paper scraps, discarded containers, glint of broken glass, pitted asphalt, wet places sucked back into darkness.

Night streets - human shapes silhouetted against lighted store windows, open doorways. Glimpsed interiors, stairs ascending dark hallways, Faces side lit, defined shadows.

Hidden movements.

recopied from earlier pages

Max Beckman by Peter Selz - 1964 MMA

p 91 "Please do remember this maxim - the most important I can give you: If you want to reproduce an object, two elements are required: first, the identification with the object must be perfect; and secondly, it should contain, in addition, something quite different. This second element is difficult to explain. Almost as difficult as to discover one's self. In fact, it's just this element