John Laue

Photography for me is a gorgeous treasure hunt. When I discover interesting subjects I usually don’t change scenes or insert extraneous elements. My method is similar to collecting “found” poems. You take what’s there. Any magic that exists must be in the selection itself, and the way one captures it.

I admire the philosophy of Wallace Stevens’ poem, “The Man With the Blue Guitar.”
“And that's life, then: things as they are”,
“A tune beyond us as we are,
Yet nothing changed by the blue guitar.”