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“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures”

~ Don McCullin

“My images reach dimensions words cannot touch. My quest, through the magic of light and shadow is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal”
~ Ruth Bernhard

“While you’re on stage, the audience is standing and applauding and yelling. But when you get home, you take off all your clothes and get into bed alone and that can really do something to your head and your heart.

~ Nina Simone


"Time can pass and everything can change in the world except the emotion you get from a photograph”

~ John Simmons

“Through my work as a model I naturally became interested in photography.. fashion photography, and at the beginning it was from the magazines of the time. That’s how I discovered the photos of Avedon, Irving Penn, Newton or Guy Bordin. And then it was through opportunity, the long waits in the studios during the fashion collections, and the chance of having a Nikon on loan, that I was able to start shooting back stage, and outside. I would take shots of my model colleagues. Yes, after 50 years of activity I define myself as a photographer”

 

~ Sarah Moon  

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"I’ll do the printing myself until I die. Printing is a personal thing. I couldn’t print your work. You couldn’t print mine. It wouldn’t be the same. So when I die, I’ll have all of my negatives destroyed”

 

Brett Weston
(1911-1993)

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“So you arrive in a place that seems good, where things are composed harmoniously in the space. Then you wait. Waiting with irrational crazy hope. Then people come into the frame and “click” you take the picture"

 

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912-1994)

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“Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss Slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile”

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912-1994)

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“I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well”

 

~ Gordon Parks
(1912-2006)

 

 

“My clothes are too chic for most women. If they want to wear them all right, but they’ve got to live up to them”

 

~ James Galanos
(1924-2016)

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“Landscape is nearly always present in one way or another in my work. Perhaps the key here is the triple meaning of “landscape”, a type of picture, a type of view and a type of place. The three cannot really be separated. The experience of a place is shaped in advance by our experience of images of it and of related places. It is easy to realize this but coming to terms with the profound implication of it can take a long time. It is a moving dynamic."

~ Anastasia Samoylova

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“For me personally I believe in a feminine sensibility which is not necessarily exclusive to women”

 

~ Sarah Moon

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“My Credo, my way of life, my very being is based on images capable of engraving themselves indelibly in our inner soul’s eye. Also, through my personal vision, to reveal what cannot be readily seen, to capture what is most meaningful, to enrich our appreciation of life. It is to explore and celebrate the human condition and the world around us, nature and man together, to find significance in suffering and all that is profound, beautiful and nourishes the soul. Above all, I believe in creative work through struggle to increase human wisdom and happiness”~ Louis Stettner(1922 - 2016)

“My Credo, my way of life, my very being is based on images capable of engraving themselves indelibly in our inner soul’s eye. Also, through my personal vision, to reveal what cannot be readily seen, to capture what is most meaningful, to enrich our appreciation of life. It is to explore and celebrate the human condition and the world around us, nature and man together, to find significance in suffering and all that is profound, beautiful and nourishes the soul. Above all, I believe in creative work through struggle to increase human wisdom and happiness”

 

~ Louis Stettner
(1922-2016)

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“I have never been drawn by one thing in particular other than finishing what I started. That’s always been an obsession of mine. I was also determined to be successful in all the assignments I undertook. When I worked on advertising shoots, I chose the sets myself and really took things seriously. In my personal work, my commitment lays in the interest I had in seeing everything around me, in documenting it all and in letting myself be surprised by people, by what was going on in the street and all around me"

 

~ Sabine Weiss
(1924-2021)

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“Take one camera with film: add one knowing eye and as much strong feeling as you have available: mix well with a generous portion of your own unique personality: expose to the right light for the exact fraction, and process until beauty appears”

 

~ Ruth Bernhard
(1905-2006)

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“I was very sensitive to poverty, to children and people in need. I probably had a more compassionate way of looking at things”

 

~ Sabine Weiss
(1924-2021)

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“Throughout my life I’ve never pursued anything. I just let things pursue me, they just show up. This is the way I’ve lead my life, not just in photography but in life”

 

~ Manuel Álvarez Bravo
(1902-2002)

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“Fashion has been something I’ve done and enjoyed— I love fashion but I also like other things I’ve photographed, whatever had an echo”

 

~ Sarah Moon

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"Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as Paul Klee who find scientific inquiries compatible with art, influence me far more than most photographers. My interest in such people is to share in their wonderment of nature and, in sharing, find added inducement to go out, look, feel, and photograph."

 

~ Wynn Bullock
(1902-1975)

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"Florida’s unique blend of natural beauty and artificial spectacle makes it endlessly photographable. Its landscapes are visually striking, with dramatic skies, lush vegetation and an ever-changing coastline. At the same time, there is this human layer — urban sprawl, tourism culture and environmental tension. The juxtaposition of the pristine and the constructed and the tension between preservation and overdevelopment create a rich visual narrative."

 

~ Anastasia Samoylova

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"I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in."

~ Steve McCurry

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“The world I was trying to present was one where I would feel good, where people would be friendly, where I could find the tenderness I longed for"

 

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912-1994)

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“What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity."

 

~ Berenice Abbott
(1898-1991)

"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist and this inner life would result in his or her personal vision of the world. No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination”

 

~ Edward Hopper

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"The best things happen when you happen to be somewhere with a camera”

 

~ Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)

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“A fantastic picture you do in a fraction of a second but to arrive to do this picture you must put your life in there, to give your time and to receive it from the community that you come to see”

 

~ Sebastião Salgado

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"What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling."

 

~ Steve McCurry

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“The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people and how they exist and how they fight for space and time and pleasure”

 

~ Don McCullin

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"My working method consists of two parts. The first is collecting, a fully intuitively process, in which the emotional experience is key and technique is of minor or very little importance. When photographing, for example, I don’t pay that many attention to sharpness. However, in the second stage, after the material has been collected, I’ll put all the dedication into the work, the editing, the printing. This process can take a long time, just like aging wine. It is impossible to predict what will come out, but I treat this second part with the most care and attention. Knowing, that the real beauty lies in the imperfection, the little mistakes, edges or elements that you didn't foresee."

 

~ Paul Cupido

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"I don’t think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal”

 

Horst P. Horst
(1906-1999)

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“Behind everything is an energy, a spirit, an essence. That gives it existence. Photography is a means to appreciate the many manifestations of my collective self. The camera is my vehicle of exploration in capturing images that make my heart smile. I’m collecting external mirrors of myself”

 

~ Chester Higgins Jr

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"This photograph is a negative print: what we see here is the tonal reverse of the positive original. How it was made, however, does not intrude on our visual experience of the image, and this was important to Bullock. For some, this is a picture of fertility, generation and abundant life. The fact that these qualities are expressed through rock – a rock filled with seed pebbles aglow with new life – only serves to enhance and extend our appreciation of them."

 

~ Chris Johnson and Barbara Bullock-Wilson
from Wynn Bullock: 55, Phaidon Press, 2001

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“I realized very young that photography would be my means of expression. I was more visual than intellectual. I was not very good at studying. I left high school. I left on a summer day on a bicycle.”

 

~ Sabine Weiss
(1924-2021)

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"We were spending our summer vacation near Aubagne where I photographed this older man playing boules. It is an ordinary scene, but I found the man very colorful in his postures.”

 

~ Willy Ronis
(1910 -2009)

 

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

~ William Butler Yeats
(1865 - 1939)

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“It’s a romantic, emotional moment in time”

 

~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

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"In the beginning, I had no thought of making the series [The North American Indian] large enough to be of any value in the future, but the thing has grown so that I now see its great possibilities, and certainly nothing could be of much greater value."

 

~ Edward S. Curtis
(1868–1952)

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“Everything inside the frame is equally important”

 

~ Pentti Sammallahti

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“The basis for my artistic work is concrete observation. I am interested in the photographs as a physical object and all the prints are made by myself. "

 

~ Kristoffer Albrecht

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"When I was in high school – 1960s – I became interested in photography and that was when I remember seeing your father’s work for the first time…. Like everyone of that era, I was impressed by Edward Weston, Ansel Adams…and other big names of the times, but your father’s photographs ended up being much more than that to me. His pictures haunt me, inspire me, and give me the courage to write. His bio suggests a lifelong searcher to me, a man on a quest to understand life and put his heart into every picture he created. I know that can’t be an easy path as it is also one I’ve chosen. The destroyed typewriter is probably my favorite image, if I am forced to name one…. Without your dad’s work…I wouldn’t be the writer I am today."

 

~ Jo-Ann Mapson
from a letter written to Wynn’s daughter Barbara
October 19, 2011

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“A combination of the right choice of detail, the elimination of all that is inessential and the right moment that makes the picture"

 

~ Wolfgang Suschitzky
(1912-2016)

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"I put my secrets, hopes and concerns in my work. The subject matter and formal concerns of color, light and frame has always been the device to get to the story itself. I want my photographs to be a jolt. They explore a magic in the world while having one foot very much placed in reality."

 

~ Cig Harvey

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"The White Church in Key West drew my attention because of its perfect compact proportions and a bit of patina, while white picket fences always remind me of Paul Strand’s image. While photographing in Florida in the 1930s, young Walker Evans wrote a letter to a friend listing notable observations about the state, including ‘religion in decay.’ That list is reproduced in my book ‘Floridas,’ which includes this White Church photograph."

 

~ Anastasia Samoylova

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“One day I wanted to make some nude photographs which I had never done before. Lisa had a very beautiful body and was not afraid of her body...she was used to "Nacktkultur"

 

~ Horst P. Horst

 

“I was always aware that Horst had a warm feeling for the personalty, the sexuality of me as a model. Even at our very first sitting when we were both so inexperienced, I felt lapped in calm and beauty and luxury and glamour-and yet as though I were in my own house, not just posing in it, but living in its myself”

 

 

~ Lisa Fonssagrives

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“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 eyes. Eventually inspiration comes. Instinct is the same as inspiration and eventually it comes”

 

~ Manuel Álvarez Bravo
(1902-2002)

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"Photography is so connected to time, its our currency"

 

~ Cig Harvey

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“There are no words to convey the moods of those moments. I believe that if I am able to express what I saw and felt, the image will contain qualities that may provide a basis for an imaginative response by the viewer”

 

~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

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“Paris is always a good idea.”

 

~ Audrey Hepburn
(Sabrina)

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"I find the south Iceland coast to be ever compelling. The conditions of lighting and weather are constantly in transition (often quite cold and windy). Sometimes the sky, sea, and land seem to merge seemingly without separation. It’s a wondrous, vast, and elemental place. A place to find perspective."

 

~ Jeffrey Conley

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"Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature."

 

~ Paul Caponigro

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“Curiosity is everything. I don’t think you can create luck. You’re either lucky or you’re not. I don’t know if it’s really luck or if it’s just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you’re curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you’re likely to be more lucky than if you stay at home .”

 

~ Elliott Erwitt

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“The joy of geometry ! When you realize everything is right"

 

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

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“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it”

 

~ Irving Penn
(1917-2009)

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"My collecting mantra is very simple: always be open and receptive, and only collect something that moves you or changes you in some way.  Collecting is like reading a great novel; you are one person before and one person after. That’s the litmus test on whether or not you should acquire an image. Does it haunt you?"

 

~ Peter Fetterman

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"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

 

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“Ah! when shall all men’s good
Be each man’s rule, and Universal Peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land…”

 

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,
from the poem The Golden Year, 1842

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“It’s about the body, it’s about the gesture, the feeling of being a woman. I can’t intellectualize what I do, and I don’t. A lot of it is purely instinctual"

 

~ Lillian Bassman
(1917-2012) 

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“You always find something happening in Trafalgar Square"

~ Wolfgang Suschitzky
(1912-2016)

“You find no man, that is intellectual who is willing to leave London. No Sir when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life: for there is in London all that life can afford”

~ Samuel Johnson

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“Photography is nothing - it’s life that interests me”

 

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908-2004)

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“I’ve entered into an unspoken, unwritten, and generally inscrutable pact with the people I have photographed and lived amongst. If I promise not to tell all I know about them, they will do the same for me”

~ Kurt Markus

(1947 - 2022)

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“Fortunately, or unfortunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered, when I let myself go and have a little fun”

~ Elsa Schiaparelli

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"Perhaps the most important thing to note about this haunting photograph is that it was not fabricated by the artist. The woman was a waif who had been given shelter by the caretaker of a remote ranch in Big Sur. It was a favorite site for Bullock and he had become friends with her, occasionally giving her work as a model. Earlier in the day, Bullock had been shaken by a strong premonition that she would eventually be forced to give up her son. When she put him on the bed for a nap and then moved to the edge of it, the premonition seemed to come to life before his eyes. It should also be noted that the book on the window sill that gives the photograph its title is a classic text on how to make one’s way across dark waters."

 

~ Chris Johnson and Barbara Bullock-Wilson
from Wynn Bullock: 55, Phaidon Press, 2001

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“I think I was shy as a young woman and realized that photography was an ideal way to of expressing myself, of telling people what was going on without having to talk”

 

~ Martine Franck
(1938-2012)

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“The cliché is true: you must navigate through darkness to reach the lighter parts. The darker parts serve as the humus ground to nurture the light.”

~ Paul Cupido 

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“The Dew Pond looks like someone put a silver plate on the landscape”

~ Don McCullin

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“One must always take photos with the greatest respect for the subject and for oneself”

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

“He was the Tolstoy of Photography with profound humanity. He was the witness of the 20th Century”

~ Richard Avedon

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“Taking pictures of celebrities is exactly like taking pictures of non-celebrities. Compose the photograph properly, try to evoke something special or unique given the available possibilities. Above all do not be intimidated. Remember that even the most exalted celebrities brush their teeth at night before going to bed”

~ Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)

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“I try to be aware of light at all times, I am always watching for it. I am not looking at light because I am a photographer. I am photographing because I am deeply involved with light”

 

~ Ruth Bernhard
(1905-2006)

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“It was a joyous route, such magnificent sights and human splendor along the way that difficulties magically effaced themselves. One regretted nothing and would have it no other way”

 

~ Louis Stettner
(1922-2016)

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“I like the streets. I grew up in the streets”

~ William Klein
(1928-2022)

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“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

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Bullock’s pictures have great power. They are at once simple and complex, stark and tender, precise and suggestive…. Opposites are…intensely present in the work of Wynn Bullock and his pictures radiate meaning.

~ Nat Herz
from “Wynn Bullock: A Critical Appreciation”, Infinity, Nov. 1961

"In 1957, the year Log and Horsetails was made, I turned twelve and the major topics for morning walks and talks with Dad were “space/time” and “opposites” and how those concepts could enrich our capacities to perceive, understand, and interrelate to the world within and around us… Not surprisingly, at that time I certainly couldn’t have described what he talked about in the way I just have. However, when I first saw Log and Horsetails, I had an “aha” moment and a seed of understanding began to take root. In addition to being an eloquent, richly meaningful image, for me it will always be a treasured reminder of Dad as a teacher/mentor as well as a marker of my own growth as a person."

~ Barbara Bullock-Wilson

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“Life is once, forever"

 

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908 - 2004)

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“I like America, just as everybody does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged”

 

~ Bob Dylan 

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“Photographs must be taken without an exchange of glances between the photographer and the subject. Without giving, without returning anything. I just shoot”

 

~ Marc Riboud
(1923-2016)

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“I try not to make conscious decisions about what I am looking for. I don’t make elaborate preparation before I go to a location. Essentially I walk, explore, discover and photograph.“

~Michael Kenna 

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"I create my images based upon stories and memories, in which I try to visualize the bond between man, spirit and nature. I love to use the contrast between light and dark and the twilight zone between them."

~ Ilona Langbroek

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“I first came to Somerset in 1940. I was sent here as an evacuee during the Second World War. I was five when I arrived at Frome station wearing a gas mask, hand in hand with my three year old sister. We were selected for the same beautiful village, Norton St Philip, but we were separated. My sister went to the big house, while I went to a farm laborers home. We had come from a family living in poverty amid the violence of Finsbury Park. I’ve always held onto those childhood memories of streams snaking through hazel trees and cows standing in the grass looking lost. Somerset was yeoman farmer’s country with hedged fields that looked like quilted blankets and hedgerows covered in buttercups”

 

~ Don McCullin

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“It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us”

 

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908 - 2004)

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“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went.”

 

~ Will Rogers

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"Firm, fleshy, glistening with juice, this is an apple you want to eat. Looking at it from another perspective, the center of the halved fruit reveals a face-like form, raising the suggestion that humanity can be seen as an integral part of nature."

~ Chris Johnson & Barbara Bullock-Wilson
from Wynn Bullock: 55, Phaidon Press, 2001

"Dad called this photograph one of his “seed pictures”. He once said, “It is not that I am uninterested in telling visual stories about people and their everyday lives. I just like to leave this kind of work to others. What I prefer is to trace the hidden roots of humanity deeply embedded in nature.” Years after making this image, he explored this theme more deeply and explicitly in what turned out to be one of his last and most evocative bodies of work."

~ Barbara Bullock-Wilson

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"I see pictures I would like to take. I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can't believe it”

 

~ Fred Lyon
(1924-2022)

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