John Sexton
John Sexton
John Edward Sextonis an American lawyer and academic. Sexton served as the fifteenth President of New York University, from 2002 to 2015. From 1988 to 2002, he served as Dean of the NYU School of Law, during which time NYU became one of the top five law schools in the country according to U.S. News and World Report. From January 1, 2003 to January 1, 2007, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth29 September 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.
Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
The time has come to move this tournament to a new level, ... By putting the formidable expertise, commitment, assets and knowledge of the NCAA behind this tournament, what we've done is to take a New York icon and given it a chance to be something even better.
The time has come to move this tournament to a new level,
The time has come for the university to insist that the academic needs of its undergraduates be met. Those undergraduates in classes affected by the strike are understandably anxious about the disruption to their studies. Such disruption must not continue.
I started questioning myself: 'What's going on here?' I'm photographing power plants and Anasazi sites, yet I still love photographing the landscape.
As soon as we got here, people were inviting us over to their houses for dinner. In Memphis, we never got invited over to anybody's house to eat.
One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.
There came a moment after literally weeks of conversation, ... that both Myles and I began to see a framework... It brought us to a point where there was really a victory without defeat.
It's a lot of miles. We spend $500 a month easy in gas. It all adds up. It's a big commitment on our part. Every day in May, every single day, they have something going on, like a tournament, practice or games or something.
We've taken a New York icon and given it a chance to be even better. We want to see the N.I.T. preserved as a New York asset.
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.
There were a thousand reasons why it would be impossible and yet he looked at it in a different way. And today we take instant film for granted.