I think the best graphic images are those where the compositions are less obvious and/or include a counterpoint. That can be the beginning of story. I have always felt that my most successful photographs are like short stories; they say the most with the least. The best photographs don’t always have stories with answers; sometimes they’re stories that ask questions. And, sometimes they’re not stories at all; instead they may be visual poems or visual adjectives.

… Ernst (Haas) always felt that everyone had their own color key (how you connect colors together in a photograph) and their own composition key (how you deal with a photograph’s “hidden structures” …it’s geometry). “It’s something you don’t go out and create…it’s already within you.”-E.H.

Arthur Meyerson
An interview with Arthur Meyerson by John Paul Caponigro

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