Tod Papageorge

Tod Papageorge, Shea Stadium, New York, 1970. Copyright T. Papageorge

I like what Tod Papageorge had to say recently about growth and failure and photography:

"You walk out the door and—bang!—like everyone else, you're part of the great urban cavalcade. But unlike everyone else, you're carrying an amazing little machine that, joined with a lot of effort, can pull poetry out of a walk downtown. All of the failed pictures you've ever made, all of the other photographs you've ever loved, even songs and lines from poems walk with you too, insinuating themselves into your decisions about what you'll make your photographs of, and how you'll shape them as pictures."

From an interview in Bomb.

(His new book of Central Park photographs, Passing Through Eden, will be published in July.)

(Go Yankees!)