Introduction

Most instructive photographic books tend to dwell a great deal on technique and equipment. This one doesn’t.

One of my best friends, Sam Garcia, and I argue endlessly over our differing perceptions of photography. Recently, he said to me, “Photography is not about photography, it is about everything else.”

I asked, “Did you make that up?”

He said, “Yeah.”

I said, “I think that is the best thing I have ever heard.”

In this book, I tried to talk about “everything else.”

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