Black Rock, 1973
Gelatin silver print
15 ½ x 19 ½ inches
Artist Quotes:
“For me, being a photographer is being a light magician. The light comes down and, for me, light is like water. It’s very fluid. You’re painting a picture with light…. But it’s the light inside that allows me to recognize what’s outside. Because you only see according to what you see inside.” “Giles puts love affair with light on exhibit” by Dinah Berland. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, June 12, 1987.
“I would call the photographs I make inner-landscapes rather than landscapes as such. I mean, the way I feel about it is that, there are many rooms in this body that I’m living in, and I have only discovered, maybe two in God knows how many. I am in a galaxie of rooms.” William Giles interviewed by David Fahey for PhotoBulletin (Volume 1, Number 8: November 1978.
“I would like to take my photography into the dimension of creating a completely different reality by showing just the ordinariness of things.” William Giles interviewed by David Fahey for PhotoBulletin (Volume 1, Number 8: November 1978.
Additional Links:
William Giles interviewed by David Fahey for PhotoBulletin (Volume 1, Number 8: November 1978.
In this interview, Giles talks about his photographic process and the subject matter of his photos.
California Landscape into Abstraction Research 