Photography is Poetry

By Harold Davis | Published March 29, 2007


Dawn Reflections in the Merced, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.

Photography is poetry. A movie is a story, but a photograph is a poem.

Robert Frost is not ee cumming is not Andrew Marvell. Just so: Henri Cartier-Bresson isn’t Ansel Adams or Galen Rowell.

What kind of poem is my photograph of dawn reflected in the Merced River in Yosemite Valley’s winter?

This entry was posted in Landscape, Photography, Writing, Yosemite.

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