Holly [Takes Pictures]

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Rock Bluegrass Country Blues Rhythm and Blues Jazz Pop Artists that sing from their souls, songs that have a sensual feel to them... those will really get me.

Movies:

Watch 'em.

Television:

Deadwood!

Books:

Read 'em.

Heroes:

Mom
"If you break this one, you don't get another one."
Ansel Adams
"I never know in advance what I will photograph, ... I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I have no doubt that I will continue to make photographs till my last breath."
Annie Leibovitz
"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
Helmut Newton
"Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already."
Bob Gruen
"[At the time] I didn't know [photographing rock groups] was important. For most of my life, I felt like the black sheep of the family. Everybody was asking when I was going to get a decent job. All of the sudden, it turns out that people are thrilled with what I did!"
Marion Post Wolcott
"My principal concern is to challenge photographers to .. - in mixed media if they wish, or even just record in still photographs as well as film and video - our present quality of life, the causes of malaise in our society- and the world- the evidences of it."
Berenice Abbott
"I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it."
Edward Weston
"My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me."
Margaret Bourke-White
“Only by his action can a man make (himself/his life) whole . . . . You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.”
Jerry Uelsmann
"Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself. The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy."
Walker Evans
"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."
William Gottlieb
“I learned to shoot very carefully. I knew the music, I knew the musicians, I knew in advance when the right moment would arrive. It was purposeful shooting."
Herman Leonard
"Hey baby!"
W. Eugene Smith
"In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too."