February 17, 2005

It's What You See

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
-Henry David Thoreau

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me -
the marvellous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson
Aperture #129, Fall 1992

Overhead lobby windows at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland. Photograph made December 2004

Posted by Will Burnham on Thu Feb 17, 2005 | Comment on this entry
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Very cool...After careful consideration, I thought it might be the rafters of a house under construction...fooled me!

Posted by: Becky on February 17, 2005 05:22 PM