The author of Hiroshima admitted only 12 students to his Yale seminar, but the knowledge dispensed there stayed with his students for life, Peter Richmond writes for Nieman Storyboard: “I won’t presume to be exact in recalling the first thing he said to us (this was 37 years ago), but I remember it being very close to this: 'If anyone in the room thinks of himself or herself as an artist, this is not a course for you. I teach a craft.'”
