[Don Schaeffer]

[matthew]

Your photos always make me think of a line from Steven Shore, even when they don't work for me. (In this case, it certainly works for me.)

"There was a critique group in the city, but the pictures were terrible, like what was in Popular Photography magazine. There was no particular intentionality, no real aesthetic intelligence behind the photography. It was about making pleasing pictures."

I was thinking the same thing last night, looking at a lot of my camera club's photographs, but for the opposite reason. Your photos certainly have an aesthetic intelligence behind them.

(Steven Shore in an interview with Lynne Tillman, reprinted in "Uncommon Places: The Complete Works".)

[Don Schaeffer]

Thank you very much sir. What a kind remark.