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John Edward Sexton (born September 29, 1942) is 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 York; in 2006, he served as chair of the Federal Reserve System's Council of Chairs.

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In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

Photography, Space, Symbol, Technology

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.

Changed, Decided, Photography, Trying, Workshop, Yosemite

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.

Cameras, Explore, Further, Kids, Photography, Places

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, Ask, Individual, Inspiring, People

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.

Age, Amazing, Artist, Cameras, Struggled, Watch

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

Dedicated, Exceptionally, Generous, Photography, Soul

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.

Beautiful, Ideas, Interested, Making, Photography, Sheets

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

Life, Photographer, Photography, Pictures, Taken

A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.

Darkroom, Editors, Eye, Photography, Prints, Valuable

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.

Artist, Organization, Seemed, Think, Thinking

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.

Needs, Photography, Pictures, Process, Trying

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

College, Film, Photography, School

When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

Artist, Challenges, Photography, Press, Release, Views

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

Environment, Love, Love Is, Natural, Part, Photography

The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did. ' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else.

Compliment, Hope, Pay, Photographer, Photography, Way

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.

Black And White, Gelatin, Image, Photography, Quality, Takes

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

Artist, Lies, Lying, Photography, Secret, Work

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

Artist, Image, Making, Seductive, Seen, Thinking

And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.

Artist, Cameras, Edges, Looks, See, Terms

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.

Artist, Beautiful, Compelled, Metallic, Photographer, Photographs

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