To Stirling Silliphant (1918-1996)
For Route 66, Naked City, and all the other wonderful things you wrote that made me want to become a writer. Dear friend, you accomplished what all true writers aim toward – you changed someone’s life.
The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events. Stieglitz told me, “When I make a photograph, I make love!” – Ansel Adams