“Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.” ShouldFirstsMayTodaySoundConversationDiscoveryFirst TimeVocalModificationTelegraphTimbreViva Author:Alexander Graham Bell
“The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.” AmericaFoundSoundGenerationsDiscoveryLaborLonelyGravesTreasureWildernessEchoes Book:The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001 Source: The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001
“I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best pictures are a seamless hybrid of discovery and construction.” WorldMayFactsSoundPhotographyDiscoveryMindsetConstructionContradictoryHybridSeamlessBest Picture Author:Richard Misrach