HT1255 - Where Greatest Hits Images Come From

So many photographers I talked to set out to make a "greatest hits" image. They're in pursuit of that one spectacular image that will be worthy of matting, framing, and hanging on the wall above the fireplace. But when I look back through history at the images we now acknowledge as the greatest hits of photography, almost all of them have risen from a project in which the photographer was deeply engaged, not the result of an attempt to make a greatest hits image.