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  • #1936 - Edouard Boubat

    #1936 - Edouard Boubat

    Parc de Saint Cloud, Paris, 1982
    “We are living photographs. Photography reveals the images within us.”

    ~ Edouard Boubat
    (1923-1999)
  • #1935 - Brigitte Carnochan
    "The qualities that have fascinated me and led me to make a particular photograph are usually quite intuitive. I generally don't have a completed concept in my mind when I begin--I move things around, change angles, lighting--until everything seems right."

    ~ Brigitte Carnochan
  • #1934 - Danielle Weil

    #1934 - Danielle Weil

    On Deck, Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium, September 1990/
    "Love is the most important thing in the world...but baseball is pretty good, too." 

    ~ Yogi Berra (1925 - 2015)
  • #1933 - William Klein

    #1933 - William Klein

    Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa, Republique Democratique du Congo, 1974
    “Photography seemed to me something magical.”

    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)
  • #1932 - Colin Jones

    #1932 - Colin Jones

    The Who, 1966
    "For the first time, a whole generation had the economic and educational opportunity to turn their backs on the dead end factory jobs of their parents, who traumatized by two world wars, had responded by creating a safety blanket of conformity.” 

    "People try to put us d-down (talkin' 'bout my generation)
    Just because we g-get around (talkin' 'bout my generation)
    Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin' 'bout my generation)
    I hope I die before I get old (talkin' 'bout my generation)This is my generation
    This is my generation, baby"

    ~ Pete Townshend
  • #1931 - John Swannell

    #1931 - John Swannell

    Marianne Lah Swannell on the beach, 1983
    “On the day of this picture, I think we’d just had lunch and strolled down to the beach to have a swim. It was September but it was still vey warm. I was just snapping away and said “I love this beautiful house, just please sit down here.” So Marianne sat down and I did a few pictures with my Pentax 67 which is actually pretty big for carrying on the beach, but I just have to have a camera with me all the time. It was a bit like a fashion shoot because I was directing her rather than just letting her do her thing.I think I even said “Please put your hand up to your head and close your eyes. Head up a bit and just go into a dream world”. The scene was very posh and I wanted to get that across. I always say my wife belongs to the 1950’s”.

    ~ John Swannell
  • #1930 - Jeffrey Conley

    #1930 - Jeffrey Conley

    Sunlight and Lake. Montana, 2022
    "Some photographs are meant to be shouted. Others are meant to be whispered."~ Jeffrey Conley
  • #1929 - Byung-Hun Min

    #1929 - Byung-Hun Min

    WV020 BHM, 1996
    “I wish people would listen to the sounds coming from each of my pieces, instead of being interested in where they were taken.”

    ~ Byung Hun Min
  • #1928 - Paul Caponigro

    #1928 - Paul Caponigro

    Kentucky Trees, 1965
    “It was along a Kentucky highway that I was prompted to stop and consider making a photograph of a stand of trees gracing the hillside that more than intrigued me. An inner feeling like “Deja Vu” convinced me to stop along the road to ponder what was before me and might soon be focused on my camera’s ground glass. Having one’s attention sharply taken by a simple scene can give a state of inner quiet that helps in understanding more deeply the nature of such an encounter. I had the realization that I had seen, in exact detail, this very landscape in one of my dreams prior to physically arriving at this seemingly predetermined place. Time and space had been patiently awaiting my arrival to create a photograph of the world in between. A nebulous and elusive dream space had found its way into the solid light of day."~ Paul Caponigro (1932-2024)
  • #1927 - William Klein

    #1927 - William Klein

    Wings of the Hawk, 42nd Street, New York, 1955,
    “42nd Street. Once The Great White Way. Now strange kind of side-street side-show. A Coney-Island seediness, the street looks like a pin-ball machine, all bumpers lit and bonus and billion and TILT. All it needs is sawdust. It's got Grant's Cafeteria, a Last Judgement skinless frank, brain-salad, chili-chowder soup production from Breughel-Chaplin Studios: it’s got novelty souvenir and How To Sex-Life shops; all back numbers of Drool, Quiver, and Queer; the original Army and Navy store, golf driving range on the second floor; a loudspeaker playing for the last 72 hours, “Mambo Mambo” by the Sisters Sisters; sailors, lushes, tough, teat-less girls in jeans and jackets, cigar-smokers, feelers, fat cops, telephones, yellow taxis, electric lights, caramel, knishes, the BMT, the Rialto, Hilarious HeadlinesMagic DogWhat Adam Saw, sneeze powder—Achew!—Stink-O-Matic, Vomitoriums, Pokerino, the Flea Circus—but, best of all, the movies.The best in the world—in fact, all the movies in the world. Films that have disappeared from every screen except, maybe, Ankara’s or Bangkok’s are here in double features. Movie heaven: all films go here, never die; the history of the movies is told non-stop on 20 screens.
    Tarzan and His Crocodile MotherThe Sign of the CrossLittle Miss Marker, and forever Gunga Din; the Three Stooges, Duck SoupKit Carson, Ruby Keeler; a Mickey Spillane Festival, a Bela Lugosi Festival, Dr. MabuseMr. Magoo—and all this in sublime palaces.
    Long-ago theatres, or Ziegfeld Follies, until the war; burlesque houses, Santa Fe Opera House–style: sepulchral, empty, green neon arrows to the men’s room, solemn candy stands. Inside, ideal movie atmosphere: something like an opium den, a barn, a bedroom, a mission dormitory, depending where you sit; an elephant’s womb, the whale’s belly; the air thick with digestion, dreams, smoke, snores, groans—but vast. You can’t see the ceiling. All is calm, grave, caressing, infinitely soothing, as the grey films rush on 18 hours a day."

    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)
  • #1926 - Don McCullin

    #1926 - Don McCullin

    The Beatles, 1968
    “Don’s a very cool guy. He is one of the great British photographers. We thought we’ve got to be the war. We’ll provide the battlefield and it’ll work. He’ll just click into action.That’s exactly what happened.”

    ~ Paul McCartney
  • #1925 - Lillian Bassman

    #1925 - Lillian Bassman

    Barbara Mullen, (Flat Hat, Bare Back), c. 1950's
    “I wanted to transform the image into something that came from inside me”

    ~ Lillian Bassman 
    (1917 - 2012)
  • #1924 - Felix Bonfils

    #1924 - Felix Bonfils

    The Western Wall, Jerusalem, c. 1880
    “Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.”

    ~ Yehuda Amichai
  • #1923 - Danielle Weil

    #1923 - Danielle Weil

    Texas Leaguer, Montreal Expos vs. New York Mets - Shea Stadium, 1990
    “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” 

    ~ Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
  • #1922 - Robert Doisneau

    #1922 - Robert Doisneau

    Mademoiselle Anita, 1951
    "The photographs that interest me, the ones that I find successful are those that reach no conclusion. They never tell a story right to the end. They leave things open so people can keep company with the image a while and continue it as they see fit, a sort of stepping stone for dreams, in other words.”

    ~ Robert Doisneau
    (1912-1994)


    “Mademoiselle Anita at the Boule Rouge 1951. When she slips off her little bolero jacket to uncover her demure shoulders, she is transformed from a rather ordinary shopgirl into a mysterious creature of the night, perhaps (why not?) a star who has stepped into this rather anonymous dance hall in the rue de Lapp and been caught by the lens of the street photographer (who is by the way just visible in the mirror to the right of the picture). So many stories can be woven from this simple picture many tales spun from its central image— for is not Mlle Anita also a reincarnation of da Vinci’s Mona Lise or Lautrec’s buveuse d’absinthe?”

    Peter Hamilton : Robert Doisneau
  • #1921 - Michael Kenna

    #1921 - Michael Kenna

    Atget's Trees, Parc St Cloud, Paris, France, 1987
    "“One of the many lessons I learned from Atget’s work has become a fundamental principle of my life-nothing is ever the same. He often returned to specific locations over and over to find fresh inspiration and new subject matter and now I do the same. I gravitate to the pertinent and concise words of the poet Rumi: “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.It will not lead you astray.”"

    ~ Michael Kenna
  • #1920 - Jeffrey Conley

    #1920 - Jeffrey Conley

    Portfolio One: Hanging Branches with Snow, Night Snow, Tree Cathedral, Woven Branches, Snow Covered Reflection, Lone Tree in Snow, 2009
    "With this portfolio, I have attempted to create a small body of work that singularly and collectively cultivates a spirit of meditative simplicity. in the quiet quality of the winter landscape I find an intense personal peace."

    ~ Jeffrey Conley

    "The Three Thousand Worlds
    that step forward with the light snow,
    and the light snow that falls in those Three Thousand Worlds."

    ~ Ryokan
  • #1919 - Pentti Sammallahti

    #1919 - Pentti Sammallahti

    Ulug-Khem, Tuvva, Siberia, (1 Horse and 2 Dogs in snow), 1997
    “Nature is everything. The soil, the flora, the fauna, the atmosphere are oneness, everything seems to have its place, including human beings. My dream is to learn to understand and to photograph it. Maybe the ideal photographer is unnoticed, not influencing anything but only observing.”

    ~ Pentti Sammallahti

    “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience”

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 
    (1803-1882)
  • #1918 - Byung Hun Min

    #1918 - Byung Hun Min

    RT 184, 2012

    “When nature is present we don’t recognize that it’s there. However when it’s gone or changed in some way, only then do we realize that it has been around. In other words, only at the moment of loss are memories restored”

    ~ Byung Hun Min

  • #1917 - Flor Garduño

    #1917 - Flor Garduño

    Regreso a la Tierra / "Return to Earth", Sololá, Guatemala, 1989
    "Photography allows me to create a bridge between dreams and reality."

    ~ Flor Garduño
  • #1916 - William Klein

    #1916 - William Klein

    Baseball Cards, 1955
    “Fifteen years before this could have been my friends and me up on Amsterdam Avenue. Our treasured baseball cards. We’d flip for them, scale them against the wall, count them, swap them, hoard them, dog -eared bulging in our pockets. But now in the brave new post war world the players (Mickey Mantle here ?) are found in TV Screens and in color.
    It’s a serious boy’s business, the cards,
    not for girls, but the girls could blow soap bubbles."

    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)
  • #1915 - Robert Doisneau

    #1915 - Robert Doisneau

    La Dame Indignee, 1948
    “The reflections in the window and the interest in the picture rendered me invisible.…. The expression hunt lasted two days. I went on with it a bit longer for the sheer pleasure of it.”

    Robert Doisneau
    (1912-1994)
  • #1914 - George Tice

    #1914 - George Tice

    White Castle, Route #1, Rahway, New Jersey, 1973
    “I love what I do. Whether it is in the darkroom or out taking pictures.”

    ~ George Tice
    (1938-2025)
  • #1913 - Edouard Boubat

    #1913 - Edouard Boubat

    Tournesols, France, 1987
    “I love the world in spite of the world.”

    ~ Edouard Boubat 
    (1923 - 1999)
  • #1912 - Louis Faurer

    #1912 - Louis Faurer

    Union Square from Ohrbach's Window, New York, N.Y., 1948-50
    These photographs make me think of that long gone time - the fifties in New York City. Faurer, with these images proves to be an extraordinary artist. His eye is on the pulse - the lonely Times-square people for whom Faurer felt a deep sympathy. Every photograph is witness to the compassion and obsession accompanying his life like a shadow. I am happy that these images survive while the world keeps changing. 

    ~ Robert Frank
    (1924 - 2019)

    Letter from Robert Frank about Louis Faurer, déjà-vu, no. 16, spring 1994
  • #1911 - Lillian Bassman

    #1911 - Lillian Bassman

    Barbara Mullen, [Blowing Kiss VARIANT] Harper's Bazaar, c. 1950's
    “I wanted to transform the image into something that came from inside me.”

    ~ Lillian Bassman (1917 - 2012)
  • #1910 - Jacques Lowe

    #1910 - Jacques Lowe

    "Leaving for the Senate" Jacqueline, Caroline & John F. Kennedy, Georgetown, Washington D.C, Spring 1959
    Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

    ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    (1917-1963)

    "Jackie, Caroline and Jack pause in the doorway of their Georgetown home before the senator heads off to his office on Capitol Hill. This is 1959, before the rush of the presidential campaign made such peaceful moments rare. Later, from this same doorway, President-elect Kennedy would announce his cabinet appointments to journalists clustered outside on the snowy street.”

    ~ Jacques Lowe
    (1930-2001)
  • #1909 - Douglas Kirkland

    #1909 - Douglas Kirkland

    Coco Chanel, Paris, 1962
    “I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people and so I do everything I can to help make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. That is what is going to control your picture because you are alone if your subject is not with you and that’s the simple answer to getting a good picture.”

    ~ Douglas Kirkland
    (1934-2022)


    “You can be gorgeous at twenty, charming at forty and irresistible for the rest of your life.”

    ~ Coco Chanel
    (1883–1971)
  • #1908 - André Kertész

    #1908 - André Kertész

    Distortion #147, 1933
    “What I feel I do.”
    André Kertész 
    (1894-1985)
  • #1907 - Robert Doisneau

    #1907 - Robert Doisneau

    Cour Carrée du Louvre, 1969
    “There are days when the simple act of seeing appears to be true happiness”~ Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)
  • #1906 - Georges Dambier

    #1906 - Georges Dambier

    Marie helene et Le Poisson Rouge, 1957
    “I never took myself that seriously. I liked the playful side of my images. It had to be spontaneous. The model must be free in her attitude and looking for unexpected events. The surrealist meeting between a goldfish and a supermodel for example."

    ~ Georges Dambier  
    (1925-2011)
  • #1905 - William Klein

    #1905 - William Klein

    Dancer Crabe, Tokyo, 1961
    “Henri Michaux wrote that in India, there was nothing to see, everything had to be interpreted. In Tokyo, I thought the opposite: everything was to be seen, nothing to be interpreted. I would be a Barbarian in Tokyo. How else, what else could I be best at trying to be other than a Barbarian."

    ~ William Klein (1926-2022)

    From Tokyo, 1961
  • #1904 - Paul Cupido

    #1904 - Paul Cupido

    Sakura, 2023
    I aim to engage with the world with wide-open senses. My work is about the magic moments of life as well as its inconveniences. I want to take pictures while forgetting about the process of photography, until I’m saturated with an existential sense of life.

    ~ Paul Cupido
  • #1903 - Manuel Álvarez Bravo

    #1903 - Manuel Álvarez Bravo

    The Daydream / El ensueño, 1931

    “I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance — I work by impulse. No philosophy, no ideas. Not by the head, but by the eye. Eventually inspiration comes. Instinct is the same as inspiration and eventually it comes."

    ~ Manuel Álvarez Bravo
    (1902-2002)

  • #1902 - Gianni Berengo Gardin

    #1902 - Gianni Berengo Gardin

    Venezia, Venice, 1960
    “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

    ~ Maya Angelou  
    (1928-2014)

    “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

    ~ Langston Hughes
    (1901-1967)
  • #1901 - Andre Kertész

    #1901 - Andre Kertész

    Snake & Flower, 1960
    “Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d’être. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison d’être, which lives on in itself.”

    ~ Andre Kertész 
    (1894 - 1985)
  • #1900 - Dolores Marat

    #1900 - Dolores Marat

    Le cheval du salon de l’agriculture, Paris, 1997
    “No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”

    ~ Winston Churchill
    (1874-1965)
  • #1899 - William Klein

    #1899 - William Klein

    Baseball Cards, 1955
    “Fifteen years before this could have been my friends and me up on Amsterdam Avenue. Our treasured baseball cards. We’d flip for them, scale them against the wall, count them, swap them, hoard them, dog -eared bulging in our pockets. But now in the brave new post war world the players (Mickey Mantle here ?) are found in TV Screens and in color.It’s a serious boy’s business, the cards,not for girls, but the girls could blow soap bubbles."~ William Klein(1926-2022)
  • #1898 - Paul Caponigro

    #1898 - Paul Caponigro

    Two Pears, Cushing, Maine, 1999
    “Viewers of this image are often surprised and question how the pears appear to be so white, since these fruits do have varying degrees of color to them. In fact, the items I photographed were ceramic replicas of the fruit. My daughter-in-law had purchased a group of these accurately shaped ceramics and generously gave one to me upon my asking for it. While holding the ceramic pear in my hand to admire its beauty, I thought about taking a photograph of it. I looked around my house and found a simple wooden bowl to use as a background, but the combination did not satisfy. Remembering that my daughter-in law had bought several of these ceramics, I asked her for another one, but she objected and suggested I borrow one only. I chose the second pear for being the right size and shape to sit harmoniously next to mine in the dark wooden bowl. This still-life arrangement pleased me and many others who have seen the photograph. When I gave my daughter-in law a finished print of “Two Pears” she was especially pleased."

    ~ Paul Caponigro (1932-2024)
  • #1897 - O. Winston Link

    #1897 - O. Winston Link

    Swimming Pool (Welch, West Virginia), 1958
    “You can’t move the sun, and you can’t even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.”

    ~ O. Winston Link
  • #1896 - William Klein

    #1896 - William Klein

    Staten Island Ferry, New York, 1955
    “I felt like a Macy’s parade balloon, floating back after a million orbits. I knew the city, but it was now in a different focus. All the sights and sounds I missed or had forgotten or never even knew suddenly moved me very much. I was in a trance, but I was able to do something about what I felt. I had a camera though I barely knew how to use it. The book’s original title was "Life is Good and Good for you in New York”. Half Madison Avenue, half tabloid headline. A joke of course, for me it was just the opposite. The place was crummy, corrupt, uncomfortable, the anguish center of the world”

    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)
  • #1895 - Michael Kenna

    #1895 - Michael Kenna

    Kussharo Lake, Study 5, Hokkaido, Japan, 2002
    “Michael’s photographs open a window on all that doesn’t change in our world of flux, all that outlasts human being and ambition. They remind us of something deep and still beneath our agitation. In the end, these are works of prayer and meditation as well as of observation”

    ~ Pico Iver 
    Cited in “Silver Haikus”: Asia Photographed by Michael Kenna
  • #1893 - Pentti Sammallahti
    “The best images are rarely planned or expected, but result from moments of lucky coincidence.”

    ~ Pentti Sammallahti

    “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

    ~ Emily Bronte
    (1818-1848)
  • #1892 - Don McCullin

    #1892 - Don McCullin

    Taking Gifts to the Sea God, Bali, 1982
    “I use a camera the way I use a toothbrush. All I’m interested in is the visual outcome and I’m lucky enough to have the hungry eyes always searching out beauty and composition.”

    ~ Don McCullin
  • #1891 - George Tice

    #1891 - George Tice

    Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1979
    “It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.”

    ~ George Tice
    (1938-2025)
  • #1890 - Flor Garduño

    #1890 - Flor Garduño

    Taita Marcos, Cotacachi, Ecuador, 1988
    “Mexico is a land pervaded by myths and legends, a land plunged into a voluptuous and sensual nature, kissed by the sun and by those exotic and ancestral places.”

    ~ Flor Garduño
  • #1889 - John Simmons

    #1889 - John Simmons

    Rosa Parks, Los Angeles, 1990
    "I chose the camera as a tool to document different aspects of life: who we are, what we do, how we live, what our communities look like."

    ~ Earlie Hudnall, Jr.

    "Time can pass and everything can change in the world except the emotion you get from a photograph”~ John Simmons
  • #1888 - Kristoffer Albrecht

    #1888 - Kristoffer Albrecht

    Small Apples, 1984
    “So That You Will Hear Me”

    So that you will hear me
    my words
    sometimes grow thin
    as the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.

    Necklace, drunken bell
    for your hands smooth as grapes.

    And I watch my words from a long way off.
    They are more yours than mine.
    They climb on my old suffering like ivy.

    It climbs the same way on damp walls.
    You are to blame for this cruel sport.
    They are fleeing from my dark lair.
    You fill everything, you fill everything.

    Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy,
    and they are more used to my sadness than you are.

    Now I want them to say what I want to say to you
    to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

    The wind of anguish still hauls on them as usual.
    Sometimes hurricanes of dreams still knock them over.
    You listen to other voices in my painful voice.

    Lament of old mouths, blood of old supplications.
    Love me, companion. Don't forsake me. Follow me.
    Follow me, companion, on this wave of anguish.

    But my words become stained with your love.
    You occupy everything, you occupy everything.

    I am making them into an endless necklace
    for your white hands, smooth as grapes.

    ~ Pablo Neruda
    (1904-1973)
  • #1887 - William Klein

    #1887 - William Klein

    Yellow Coat + Bus + Crane, New York, 1958
    Bill’s words about his late wife Jeanne Florin who passed away in 2005.

    “Our relationship was the love affair of the century.We met when we were 18 years old and we were together for more than 50 years. That’s Paris.I think a lot about her these days for some reason.I think about her more these last months than in a long time time”

    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)
  • #1886 - Pentti Sammallahti

    #1886 - Pentti Sammallahti

    Lake Numazawa, Fukushima, Japan, 2005
    “November was the perfect time to travel in Fukushima prefecture. The weather was capricious enough, foggy, raining and snowy with occasional sharp sun beams too. Fukushima showed me varying landscapes: mountains, forests, plains and fields, seashore.
    I could catch a glimpse of the everyday life of the country people. I followed the migrating seabirds to the lakes of Inawashiro and Numazawa and came to know miraculous holy and historical sites."

    ~ Pentti Sammallahti
  • #1885 - Eve Arnold

    #1885 - Eve Arnold

    Marilyn Monroe, on the Nevada desert going over her lines for a difficult scene she is about to play with Clark Gable in the film, "The Misfits" by John Huston, 1960
    “She made love with the camera or perhaps with herself but acted for her public.Being photographed was a way of letting herself be caressed and appreciated in a very in offensive way."

    ~ Eve Arnold 
    (1912-2012)

    “A career is wonderful but you can’t curl up with it in a cold night.”

    ~ Marilyn Monroe
    (1926-1962)
  • #1884 - Georges Dambier

    #1884 - Georges Dambier

    Suzy Parker, Hydrangea, 1953
    “Darling you are in love with my camera." 

    ~ Georges Dambier
    (1925-2011)

    ‘Modeling is the quickest way I know of to make a lot of money fast. All you need is strong ankles.”

    ~ Suzy Parker
    (1932-2003)
  • #1883 - William Klein

    #1883 - William Klein

    Barber Shop, Rome, 1956
    “The way a subject reacts to the camera can create a kind of happening. Why pretend the camera isn’t there? Why not use it? Maybe people will reveal themselves as violent or tender, crazed or beautiful. But in some way, they reveal who they are. They’ll have taken a self-portrait.”

    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)
  • #1882 - Robert Doisneau

    #1882 - Robert Doisneau

    Le Baiser de l'Opéra, 1950
    "There is always some madness in love, but there’s also always some reason in madness”

    ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
    (1844-1900)  

    “Chance is the one thing you can’t buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."

    ~ Robert Doisneau
    (1912-1994)
  • #1881 - Paul Caponigro

    #1881 - Paul Caponigro

    Galaxy Apple, New York City, 1964
    “I did not see this image as becoming a finished print when I was photographing it as part of a still life of a fruit bowl. The final image arose from a set of proofs that were both dark and light. I usually make contact proofs of all my negatives for dating and filing. Although I had planned to make a print depicting the simplicity and beauty of the Red Delicious apple, which was dark red and randomly covered with white spots, another idea occurred. Within the set of proof prints, my intuition or inner eye spotted a darkly printed proof that suggested exciting potential. Because the print was dark, the shape of the apple was subdued, causing the points of light and other reflections to stand out like stars and a moon. By manipulating and playing with the dark and light tonal values of the printed negative, I had unknowingly arrived at a photograph that expressed the drama of a night sky or galaxy using a simple apple. It was a reminder to stay open to the potential of the medium of photography and what it was able to teach me.”

    ~ Paul Caponigro
    (1932-2024)
  • #1880 - Gregori Maiofis

    #1880 - Gregori Maiofis

    Taste for Russian Ballet, 2008
    “I don’t have a secret room where I have all these ideas on shelves, where I can just go in and pick one out. It doesn’t work like that. In my case, I do something because I have an idea or an image living in my mind and I feel it must be fulfilled.It is as if something is knocking on the door. It wants to become real so to speak.”

    ~ Gregori Maiofis
  • #1879 - Max Yavno

    #1879 - Max Yavno

    The Leg, Los Angeles CA, 1949
    “I like to think of Max as the innocent formographer. In a lifetime of devotion to excellence, his passion for the well-made object has moved craft to art, transformed the ordinary to a luminous, ordered presence. Child of the thirties, Max has been rescued from relative obscurity by the connoisseurship and perceptive dealership of the late seventies - to the delight of his fellow photographers and an expanding and appreciative audience.”

    ~ Aaron Siskind
    (1903-1991)
  • #1878 - William Klein

    #1878 - William Klein

    Simone, Painting, Coffee, Rome, (VOGUE), 1960
    “I accepted the obligation of showing the clothes. Sharp, all the buttons, pleats and whatever. As long as I did that I found I could do pretty much what I wanted with the rest - backgrounds, attitudes, situations.”

    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)
  • #1877 - Bruce Davidson

    #1877 - Bruce Davidson

    Central Park, New York City, NY, 1992
    “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”

    ~ Aristotle
  • #1876 - William Klein

    #1876 - William Klein

    "Smoke & Veil" Paris (VOGUE), c. 1950's
    “The yokel I was I couldn't imagine how one took a fashion photograph. How to light? What camera? What was the model supposed to be doing? How not to make us both look like fools? I'd never seen a fashion sitting. I supposed it to be some sort of arcane ritual with secret rules and coded vocabulary." 

    ~ William Klein 
    (1926-2022)
  • #1875 - Édouard Boubat

    #1875 - Édouard Boubat

    Le Pont de Brooklyn, New York, 1982
    “After the war I was 20 years old, I want to live. ….My photos, like gateways in time, opened the world for me Hit the road! You must snap the photo.You must embrace life so that it comes alive!”

    Édoaurd Boubat
    (1923-1999)
  • #1874 - Michael Kenna

    #1874 - Michael Kenna

    Huangshan, Study 36, Anhui, China, 2008
    “When I first get off a plane, train, boat or bus in a new place I want to see it afresh, as if for the first time.
    Bill Brandt, whom I never met but still regard as a mentor, used to describe his way of working as being an effort to regard what was in front of him with childlike eyes, with surprise and astonishment. The resulting photographs express that. Once embarked on the trail of discovery, each connection leads to another with the ultimate destination unknown and I have always been attracted to the unknown”

    ~ Michael Kenna
  • #1873 - Ralph Gibson

    #1873 - Ralph Gibson

    Mary Ellen and Hand, 1967
    “The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”

    ~ Henry Miller

    “My intention is to make my perception of anything become the subject itself. I aim to make photographs that have no beginning and no end”

    ~ Ralph Gibson 
  • #1872 - Dan Budnik

    #1872 - Dan Budnik

    'March on Washington' - Martin Luther King Jr. after delivering his, 'I Have a Dream' speech, Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., August 28, 1963
    “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

    ~ Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (1963)
  • #1871 - William Klein

    #1871 - William Klein

    Serge Gainsbourg, 1984
    “Be yourself I much prefer seeing something even if it is clumsy that doesn’t look like somebody else’s work”

    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)

    “Ugliness is superior to beauty because it last longer.”

    ~ Serge Gainsbourg  
    (1928-1991)
  • #1870 - Henri Cartier-Bresson

    #1870 - Henri Cartier-Bresson

    View from Notre Dame, Paris, France, 1955
    “Answers have no meanings. What matters is the question itself.”

    Henri Cartier Bresson
    (1908-2004)
  • #1869 - André Kertész

    #1869 - André Kertész

    Distortion #6, Paris, 1933
    “They had used graphic arts in their magazine but had never used photography and wanted me to photograph women. Of course I told them I liked the idea - I liked women too. I thought I could do something nice using my ideas about distorting the human figure. The editor was excited and promised to provide everything I would need, model, studio, everything. The studio was arranged with two large circus mirrors which were quite beautiful in themselves. Originally there were two women for contrast the young and the old - then I settled on one. She was a society girl in Paris, a White Russian. The older model was a cabaret dancer. I photographed the young woman over a period of four weeks, usually twice a week. I would develop glass plates and make prints for myself. When I showed them to the model, she told me she was quite sure that it was not her in all of the photographs. When I exhausted the possibilities of the mirror after making about 200 negatives, I stopped.” 

    ~André Kertész
    (1894-1985)
  • #1868 - William Klein

    #1868 - William Klein

    Selwyn, 42nd Street, New York, 1955
    “I went to work with a vengeance——directed as much against photography which I was discovering as the city I was rediscovering. My secret weapon was a peculiar double vision half native, half foreigner. The pictures I took for the diary book were my first “real” photographs. In Paris I had started to see what I could do with a camera but this time I had a bona fide project.”

    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)
  • #1867 - Elliott Erwitt

    #1867 - Elliott Erwitt

    North Carolina, 1950
    “Two drinking fountains. One refrigerated, one not.
    I shot two exposures. One of them with a black person drinking from the colored fountain and the other just the installation itself.
    Traveling in the South, one was not stocked to see these supposedly separate but equal situations. They should have been called unequal. Of course segregation without signs was pretty much in effect throughout the country. Keep in mind it was 1950, a terrible time”

    ~ Elliott Erwitt (1928 - 2023)
  • #1866 - William Klein

    #1866 - William Klein

    Simone & Nina, Piazza di Spagna, Rome (VOGUE), 1960
    “I never went to those fashion meetings - all those women with hats and thick glasses."
    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)

    "For the famous picture on the piazza di Spagna Bill was high up on the stairs with his telephoto lens, the girls were to walk back and forth on the pedestrain crossing, doing double takes at each other because they were wearing similar dresses. I was on the sidewalk to relay messages, if necessary. There were no walkie-talkies back then. At first, no problem - back and forth, double take, click, again and again. But this was Rome and soon men began to congregate. Who are these girls in their fancy cocktail dresses? What are they up to? Bill was 200 yards away, out of sight. Traffic was starting to jam, the men closing in, the girls getting nervous. I was cringing, absolutely dying, sure that we were starting a riot, that we'd get arrested, but Bill kept shooting away and laughing into his camera, until it really got out of hand and we had to stop and get out of there."
    ~ Susan Train
  • #1865 - Georges Dambier

    #1865 - Georges Dambier

    Suzy Parker, Etole Leopard, Elle, Paris, September 8, 1952
    “Look at me with a great deal of tenderness in your eyes.” 

    ~ Georges Dambier
    (1925-2011)

    “My favourite city? Paris. Because you never know what’s going to come around the corner because you live in surprises.
    You know like when you’re in love and you hurt a little bit?
    I always hurt for Paris”

    ~Suzy Parker 
    (1932-2003)
  • #1864 - Robert Doisneau

    #1864 - Robert Doisneau

    Les enfants de la place Herbet, 1957
    “For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult but after that things get better.”

    ~ Robert Doisneau
    (1912-1994)
  • #1863 - Paul Cupido

    #1863 - Paul Cupido

    Kachou, 2023
    “My aim is to immerse myself to the point where I forget about the photographic process. Every step I take begins with the notion of “mono no aware”, the transience of everything, the gentle melancholy of things.”

    ~ Paul Cupido
  • #1862 - William Klein

    #1862 - William Klein

    Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1961
    “With Tokyo I found myself confronted with an unpredicted problem. A book on Tokyo, how could I be sure I knew what that meant? I was just looking and depending on instinct and feeling. This wall, that step, are they what they seem? How to be sure? For the first time I was photographing unknown scenes and objects. I was faced with making sense of what I was seeing. I was depending on my feelings and obliged to make photographs of the non-identified, of another world. I guess this was-the -test of photography.  
    I took the challenge "
    ~ William Klein
    (1926-2022)
    “William Klein took his camera and unrelentingly ventured into the Japanese capital of Tokyo, right in the midst of the chaos of rapid economic growth, and with the Olympic Games coming up three years later. The various shots of just about everything he could seize hold of in his rampant shooting style he eventually put into one single book. Indeed a photographer with the wild eye and sensibility of a young William Klein was still to emerge at a world class-level.
    Looking at the photographs collected in “TOKYO” for the first time in a while. I caught myself feeling vaguely jealous.And once agin, I thought that “these were pics I wanted to shoot”
    This series of William Klein’s photos of cityscapes will eternally remain my bible”
    ~ Daidō Moriyama
  • #1861 - Paul Caponigro

    #1861 - Paul Caponigro

    Sunflower Vase, Millerton, NY, 1970
    “Silence and Presence. Both are needed in order to see and feel and make a photograph.”

    ~ Paul Caponigro
  • #1860- William Klein

    #1860- William Klein

    Anne St. Marie + Cruiser, New York (Vogue), 1958
    “In the fashion pictures of the 1950’s nothing like Klein had happened before
    He went to extremes which took a combination of great ego and courage” ~ Alexander Liberman
    (1912-1999)
  • #1859 - Pentti Sammallahti

    #1859 - Pentti Sammallahti

    Untitled (Horse Kiss), 1979
    "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."

    ~ John Wayne 
    (1907-1979)
  • #1858 - Leopold Hugo

    #1858 - Leopold Hugo

    Tree, Seascape, c. 1910
    "The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration." 

    ~ Claude Monet
    (1840-1926)
  • #1857 - William Klein

    #1857 - William Klein

    Fellini Drinking Coffee, 1956
    “Rome is a movie and Klein did it.” 

    ~ Federico Fellini
    1920 -1993
  • #1856 - Marc Riboud

    #1856 - Marc Riboud

    Highbury Stadium, England, 1954
    “For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one. Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.“

    ~ Marc Riboud
    (1923-2016)
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