Larry Towell Professions : Photographer Born : 1953 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Larry Towell If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities. Larry Towell land people thinking ... photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes? Larry Towell necks rewards eye People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it. Larry Towell immediate-gratification share people My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about. Larry Towell tired wife years Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful. Larry Towell first-love photography looks Be yourself and look outside of yourself. Larry Towell being-yourself looks Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors
