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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photography trying needs
You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.
photography trying months
I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.
thinking organization trying
And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.
inspiring people trying
It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.
artist trying elements
So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.
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The time has come to move this tournament to a new level,
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american-businessman love plants power
I started questioning myself: 'What's going on here?' I'm photographing power plants and Anasazi sites, yet I still love photographing the landscape.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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