when you awake do you look for what’s right, or what’s failed overnight.

growth or gloom .

upon first viewing, do you look for what’s best in the photograph, or what’s the worst . do you teach by pointing out their errors — or, … can you complete the line

can you get past the photograph . can you get past the subject of the photograph.. can you get past the limit you set yourself..

American Photographs — Weston to Beaumong Newhall, “I want the Walker Evans book. He is certainly one of our finest. When I see a photograph reproduced that I like, I usuallly find it is by Walker Evans.”  — september 23, 1938.