William Henry Jackson Quotes

• Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.

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  Country   Photography   House  

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• In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.

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  Art   Practice   Way  

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• Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)

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  Morning   Mountain   Holy Cross  

  Dean Knudsen, William Henry Jackson, United States. National Park Service, Oregon Trail Museum (1997). “An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum”

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• And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

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  Believe   Should Have   Done  

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• [The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.

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  Cameras   Dimes   Earth  

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