Five Contradictory Thoughts on an Art Career

The exam of 1st-amount intelligence is the means to hold contradictory thoughts in intellect at the similar time and however retain the means to function. A person need to, for illustration, be in a position to see that things are hopeless but be identified to make them otherwise.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

There will often be another person improved than you because competitors and pecking get is aspect of human character. With apologies to F. Scott Fitzgerald, I give this record of five competing viewpoints for your thought, holding in head that no one particular can do it alone.

Just about every problem has numerous options. There is no fantastic rationale not to use any moral way to resolve a trouble. So, be resourceful and use what is offered. Contemplating as a result of all sides of an issue is illuminating.

It takes power to determine out what anyone is

AP Photographer Kathy Willens Retires, Reflects On Career


Kathy Willens / AP Photo

World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali has his headgear adjusted by trainer Chris Dundee, in Miami Beach on Dec. 21, 1977.

When Kathy Willens graduated from college, she was mostly resigned to becoming a starving artist. Instead, she became a photographer, and worked for the Associated Press for nearly 45 years, winning multiple awards for her coverage of breaking and general news, features, sports, fashion, and celebrities.

When Willens started, there were very few women photojournalists working alongside her, and the entire industry was an analog one — with photographers developing their own film and writing their captions on typewriters. At the end of Willens’s career, 95,000 of her images were on the AP Images website.

We caught up with Willens two weeks into her retirement (“I haven’t had a moment to relax!” she said) to talk about sports photography, long lenses, and what it was