#Portrait

“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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"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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“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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“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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“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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“As I drove along the dusty road to Prades in 1954, I had the feeling that I was on a pilgrimage bent. I was going to meet that great self-exile and patron saint of music, Pablo Casals. He did not disappoint me. I had never photographed a warmer or more sensitive human being."

 

~ Yousuf Karsh
(1908 - 2002)

“Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.”

 

~ Pablo Casals
(1876 - 1973)

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“In this series of portraits the countenance served as a mirror in which I looked at myself, wondered and searched for meaning...the strength of the glance lies in the power it has to reverse my own, and this power reaches its most intense value if it manages to reverse the spectator’s as well. To the observer, to discover him or her self in this internal, silent gaze, accompanied by this immobile countenance that stares back at him, means to become aware that. We all share a common destiny. A reflection on beauty as fragility, memory as pain and time as a continuous fall”

 

~ Luis González Palma

“There is a brief moment when all that there’s in a man’s mind and soul and spirit may be reflected through his eyes, his hands his attitude. This is the moment to record. This is the elusive “moment of truth”."

 

~ Yousuf Karsh
(1908 - 2002)

 

 

“If I don’t practice one day, I know it.
Two days the critics know it. Three days the public knows it”

 

~ Jascha Heifetz
(1901 - 1987)

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“All you had to do was hang around him and magic would happen. He was naturally gregarious. He was like Ali in that respect, who I photographed alot. He loved the press”

 

~ Neil Leifer

 

 

“There have only been two geniuses in the world
Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare”

 

~ Tallulah Bankhead

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“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the care she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with every passing year”

~ Audrey Hepburn

“I never considered giving up on my dreams. You could say I had an invincible optimism"

~ Tina Turner(1939-2023)

“A photographic session is a joint interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me, photography is more a process of creating an experience than one of looking for pictures”

~ Norman Seeff

“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older”

~ Anouk Aimée
(1932 - 2024)

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress. Dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

~ Coco Chanel

 

“For years Madame Chanel had firmly refused to allow her dresses to be photographed, let alone herself, for Vogue. But one day in 1937 to the frank astonishment of Vogue’s Paris office, she sent word that she would consent to be photographed - on one condition, that I should be the photographer”

~ Horst P. Horst

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“The thing the 60’s did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility”

~ John Lennon

“You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you”

~ Lee Friedlander

“When I’m not making work, I’m spending my time reading. I’m reading and thinking about how to present something in a different way visually or through words”

 

~ Cig Harvey

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“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

 

~ Maya Angelou

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“I was terrified, I didn’t think I even knew who he was. But the light was good”

~ Jane Bown
(1925-2014)

 

“War doesn’t determine who is right - only who is left”

~ Bertrand Russell

 

“In my artistic process I have tried to create images that invite the observer to examine by means of what I call “emotional contemplation” assigning through the beauty in them the meaning of their shape”

 

~ Luis González Palma

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“My dad used to have an expression. It’s the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do and thinks it still matters”

~ President Joe Biden

“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda. It is a form of truth”

~ John F Kennedy

“For that second when I look through the lens I absolutely love the sitter and then I’m gone"~ Jane Bown(1925-2014)

“I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over”

~ Mick Jagger

"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.)

“Street photography is a joy. But the most difficult thing for me is a portrait. It’s not at all like someone you catch on the street. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt, which is not an easy thing”

 

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908 - 2004)

“This is essentially a People’s contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.”

 

~ Abraham Lincoln

We are excited to share that the “The Power of Photography” exhibition is now on view at the Naples Art Institute in Naples, Florida. This exhibition will feature a selection of over 122 original prints curated by collector and gallerist Peter Fetterman, on view now until April 28th 2024. For more information on visiting the museum, please see below: 

The Power of Photography Exhibition
Naples Art Institue
585 Park Street
Naples, FL 34102

Naples Art Institue and Gallery Store
Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday: 10 am - 6 pm
Tuesday/Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am - 4 pm

“…my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things…”

~ Sebastiao Salgado

“January 19, 2am. It was two in the morning, just me and the Beatles in John’s room. They were in their night clothes, they‘d ordered up food and whiskey, and Brian Epstein came in. He had big news "I want to hold your hand" had just made it into the charts in US. They erupted in cackles. They were beaming. Then he put the icing on the cake. "And next month we’re off to America. You’re going to be on The Ed Sullivan Show". The song had just entered the Billboard 100 at number 45. (By February 1, it would be number one). So I saw my opening. I suggested they celebrate with a pillow fight-like the one George had mentioned to me before. John immediately shot it down. "No. It’ll make us look silly” But I kept my eye on John, who started slinking off. And just as I lifted my camera, John sneaked up behind Paul and pow, whacked him in the head with a pillow. Paul’s drink went flying and they were off”

 

~ Harry Benson

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

~ Berenice Abbott

 

"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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“I said to her, "Do something with the spirit of the studio corner" and she started to move on the sofa. She just made a movement. I took only two photographs. No need to shoot a hundred rolls like people do today. People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment - the moment when something when something changes into something else”

~ Andre Kertész

 

“Whatever we have done, Kertesz did first. We all owe something to Kertesz”

 

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

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“If you ask me what feelings the Eiffel Tower evokes for me, I’d have to say that indeed it’s a matter of sentiments. Those one feels for an old friend one is always glad to see again. A friend who was responsible for my first publication in LIFE in 1953. In the course of a long voyage full of more wear and rather less reason, laying eyes on this great lady again, you’re sure that at last you are home again. She is always there, quite erect, a bit arrogant as she looks down on us from so far above. More than ever she is courted by an increasing number of lovers who climb to conquer her. Her image marked our childhood and coming home from the country on a Sunday evening everyone of my children played the same game at the same age of around 3 or 4 of seeing who would be the first to see the familiar tower in the Paris sky.”

 

~ Marc Riboud. 1923-2016

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"Photographing Lenny was always an event. There was always a buzz in the air, an excitement, an anticipation. When Lenny was in the house, something was going to happen. We didn’t know what, but we were on the edges of our chairs waiting to find out. I say we, as if I were one of the musicians. But I was also on stage (or hovering close by), and I found myself equally compelled to rise above my limits, and break through my upper expectations... And that was good. I was never able to let my guard down for a second – my concentration had to be complete if I wanted to follow where he was going – his energy could burst forth suddenly, his body leaping high off the podium, his arms flying in the air, eyes blazing, mouth agape… and then receding just as quickly, and barely moving, conducting with only his shoulders or eyebrows, eyes closed, deep inside the soul of the conductor…. Whatever it was, it was total immersion in the music, and the results are legendary. That night in March 1990, there was no way to know that Leonard Bernstein was struggling or that these would be the last photographs I would ever take of The Maestro. These performances were vintage Bernstein; he was as powerful and vital as ever, and it was thrilling. Yet, some point during the concert, it began to dawn on me that something was off, something was wrong. Not that it showed to the audience, but I was seeing something in him I had never before seen. His usual joy and light had somehow dimmed, and he had a gentle but profound sadness in his eyes, a deeper melancholy than I had ever before seen……Lenny died 7 and a half months later. Years after, as I was looking through these photos, I could not deny what I was seeing, so I emailed his daughter Jamie and asked if he knew at that time that he was dying. She emailed back: “I don’t know the answer to the question. But he knew ‘something wasn't right’ as far back as that January. I think maybe he had a feeling...”

 

~ Steve J. Sherman

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"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

 

~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Washington National Cathedral, March 31, 1968

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“I do not use the word “genius” lightly but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing”

 

~ Mick Rock

 

“As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself”

 

~ David Bowie

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“I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene”

~ Mick Rock

 

“Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions the listener has"

~ Lou Reed
(1942-2013)

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"This photo was taken in Parc Monceau, which is in a fairly wealthy part of Paris. I was staying fairly close by on the Avenue de Wagram. The Deux Chevaux is the iconic car of mid-Twentieth Century France and its familiar and unique design has always stood out to me. In the photo, I am interested in this particularly well-worn 2CV juxtaposed against the classical columns of the park's rotunda. All these years later, I'm amazed by black and white photography's ability to preserve the fading light of a fall day that took place decades ago."

 

~  Mark Steinmetz

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“If I take a picture I have to account for it. I have opened something to someone’s reality”

 

~ Bruce Davidson 

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“A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.”

 

~ Arnold Newman

 

"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"

 

~ Pablo Picasso

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"A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. The detail is as important as the essential is."

 

~ Christian Dior

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"Photography is a waiting game. The shutter may take only a instant, but the photographer has waited for exactly the right subject, the correct perspective, the perfect light, carefully arranging it all in the frame to be paused in time."

 

~ Douglas Gilbert

"I saw photographing jazz artists as a visual diary of what I was hearing. I wanted to preserve the mood and atmosphere as much as possible. My goal was to capture these artists at the height of their finest creative moments."

 

~ Herman Leonard
(1923-2010)

"All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us."

 

~ Alfred Stieglitz
(1918-2006)

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom”

 

~ Bob Dylan

“Bob Dylan’s arrival in New York was like a prophecy come true. He fit the image that had already been established by Pete Seeger in his blue jeans and work shirts and by Woody Guthrie - a refugee from the dust bowl era -and his dirty rugged clothing. Dylan stepped into this legacy and played his character well with his own comedy and original insights. People remember that he was “stealing" from everybody around him, absorbing the entire scene. In the process he energized folk music, created his own songs, incorporated earlier American traditional music, shaped Rock’n’Roll and wrote some of the most moving songs of the century”

 

~ John Cohen
(1932 - 2019)

 

“At that time, whatever Dylan would send to the record companies, they would use. He picked all the inside photographs also. They were lying around my studio and he chose them."

 

~ Jerry Schatzberg

“The work is grounded. It’s solid and it hasn’t changed.. I have, but not the photographs.. I have great admiration for whoever I was, whoever the person was that did the work somehow in that time”

 

~ Sheila Metzner

"The awful truth is that I love all of cowboying, even when everything has gone wrong and it's not looking to get any better. Sometimes I especially like it that way."

~ Kurt Markus

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity"

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

“It is still color, it is not yet light”

~Pierre Bonnard

“I like to have information rather than just have a brushstroke. Just to have these words to put in these feelings underneath.”

 

~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

We are pleased to announce that we have secured a group of the first editions copies of the amazing new Magnum Opus book Bob Dylan, Mixing up the Medicine (published by our friends Callaway), due to be released October 24th, 2023. I know this first edition is close to selling out already and will become a highly sought out and valuable collectible book in the years to come as this is the definitive bible on Bob Dylan.

 

If you would like to pre order some copies please contact Peter at peter@peterfetterman.com. The book is available at $100 (+packing/shipping).

 

Bob Dylan
Mixing Up The Medicine
Publisher: Callaway
608 pages
$100.00

 

 

Exhibition Opening : Tuesday, October 24th. 5-7 PM

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica
2525 Michigan Ave, Suite A1

 

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“When our paths crossed I found the man who taught me happiness”

 

~ Robert Doisneau

“Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.”

 

~ Grace Coddington

“W. Eugene Smith’s photo essays taught me that a photograph could not only communicate emotion, but could also save the human condition”

 

~ Bruce Davidson

“I like to have information rather than just have a brushstroke. Just to have these words to put in these feelings underneath.”

~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
(1960-1988)

“Everyone wants a pop star, see? But I am a protest singer I just had stuff to get off my chest. I had no desire for fame…. I understand I’ve torn up the dreams of those around me. But those aren’t my dreams. No one ever asked me what my dreams were. They just got mad at me for not being who they wanted me to be”

~ Sinead O’Connor

"I photographed Sinead O’Connor for the first time in October 1988 for the NME (the leading British music paper). She was pretty shy, but she was only 21. Like many young musicians, she was quite intimidated by the fact that I’d photographed Ian Curtis (Joy Division). I then photographed her a year later for the same publication, two weeks after her 23rd birthday. She was more sure of herself and liked the ideas we worked with. Many of the shots were single spotlit head shots against a black cloth. This series used a similar light but against a grey cloth, echoing a 60s fashion style. This is my favourite shot from the session. Sinead looks fully in control of the look she’s giving me for the photograph."

~ Kevin Cummins

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy or any of your time or any of your space."

~ Johnny Cash

 

“A photographic session is a joint interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me , photography is more a process of creating an experience than one of looking for pictures.”

~ Norman Seeff

“There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it”

~ Francis Crick

“Sir Francis was absolutely adorable. He had a twinkle in his eye and a tremendous sense of humor and humility abut him- this from the man who discovered the DNA double-helix.We had wonderful conversations about science and metaphysics.This shot, taken at the Salk Institute optimizes the style and sophistication of the man”

~ Norman Seeff

“I shot Whitney at the height of her career. Her voice was transcendent. She came into my studio so appreciative of what I was doing and very delicate in her interaction with me, more interested in my well being than anything else. I fell in love with her. She was sensitive and vulnerable and open”

~ Norman Seeff

“I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow. If I fail or if I succeed at least I did as I believed"

~ Whitney Houston

“Every night I was going somewhere. I’d work all day on a farm, play all night and get back home about sunrise. I’d get the mule and get right on going. I went to sleep once in the shed. I used to go to sleep so much when we were playing they called me “Sleepy”. But I never missed a note”

~ Sleepy John
(1899-1977)

“ I arrived at a small house far beyond the outskirts of Memphis. My guide asked Sleepy if I could photograph him. Sleepy replied “Okay buts got to buy beer” I couldn’t understand a word of what he was saying-his southern accent was so extreme. My hippie guide had to act as an interpreter. I ended up buying a lot of beer. People from all around the neighborhood rolled up and it turned into a big party.”
~Norman Seeff

"All I really, really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you too"

 

~ "All I Want" by Joni Mitchell

"If everybody had an ocean
Across the U.S.A
Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like Californi-a
You'd see them wearing their baggies
Huarache sandals too
A bushy bushy blond hairdo
Surfin' U.S.A"

~ "Surfin' U.S.A." by The Beach Boys

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life"

 

~ Steve Jobs
(1955-2011)

"Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.”

~ Sophia Loren

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.”

~ Ray Charles
(1930 - 2004)

“Soon after my arrival in NY, I met Robert and Patti at a downtown Manhattan bar. I thought they looked cool and asked them to do a session with me. The authenticity and emotional depth of their love was exactly what I was looking for in my images.”

~ Norman Seeff

"I didn't write it to be cathartic, I wrote it because Robert asked me to… Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved. So that was my agenda for writing that book. I wrote it to fulfil my vow to him, which was on his deathbed. In finishing, I did feel that I'd fulfilled my promise."

~ Patti Smith

Photo Basel Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography based art, now in its 8th edition, is open!

The fair takes place during Art Basel week from June 12^th – 18^th  at Volkshaus Basel, just a short walk from Art Basel at the convention centre.

 

 

"I make clothes. Women make fashion."

~ Azzedine Alaïa

“Influence comes from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime of accumulation of influence, experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experience comes to a peak and you work on two levels, the conscious and the unconscious”

 

~ Arnold Newman
(1918-2006)

“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead and anyone who does not remember. betrays them again"

 

~ Elie Wiesel
(1928-2016)

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as god himself”

 

~ Elie Wiesel(from his 1956 work “Night")

“Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture”

 

~ Arnold Newman

“I love New York even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it”

 

~ Truman Capote

"My best pictures are always taken when I succeed in establishing a bond of sympathy with my sitter"

~ Doris Ulmann
(1882 - 1934)

"Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice”

~ Paul Robeson
(1898 -1976)

“The pursuit of Justice is all I have ever known”

~ Harry Belafonte
(1927 - 2023)

“We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.”

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

“My work begins with recording an image, but it is not finished until I have made a fine print. That is my photograph. A lot goes into a finished documentary photograph, a very personal view of life, a knowledge of technique and of course information. It is the information that grabs the viewer but it is the photographers’s art that holds them."

~ George Zimbel

“I am a visually upbeat person. I see things that are “up” and it gets me interested"

~ George Zimbel

“I grew up not wanting to grow up. Growing up seemed terrible. To me it was awful. Children were free and sane and grown ups were hideous”

~ Mary Quant
(1930-2023)

“It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place with the right talents. In recent fashion there are three. Chanel, Dior and Mary Quant”

~ Ernestine Carter

“At 16 I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then suddenly people told me I was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad”

~ Twiggy

“At Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, I found Einstein, a simple, kindly almost childlike man, too great for any of the posturing of eminence. One did not have to understand his science to feel the power of his mind or the force of his personality. He spoke sadly, yet sincerely as one who had looked into the universe, far past mankind’s small affairs. When I asked him what the world would be like were another atomic bomb to be dropped, he replied wearily “Alas we will no longer be able to hear the music of Mozart”.

~ Yousuf Karsh

 

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning”

~ Albert Einstein

“There were about 100 people who ran the 1960’s in England and I was fortunate enough to meet, work with and/or photograph virtually all of them”

~ Robert Whitaker

“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow”

~ John Lennon

"It’s difficult to get there, but once you manage to find your own voice it gets somewhat easier, because you know what you want to see in your images."

 

~ Noell Oszvald

“The world makes up my pictures not me"

~ Lee Friedlander

“In the past decade a new generation of photographers has directed the documentary approach towards more personal ends. Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it. Their work betrays a sympathy - a trust, an affection - for the imperfections and frailties of society. They like the real world in spite of it’s terrors as the source of all wonder and fascination and value-no less precious for being irrational ."

~ John Szarkowski

“Richard Diebenkorn’s fame as a painter continues to grow. Here he’s in his Oakland studio, but I first knew him in Sausalito, where a group of artists would sit around with a jug of Gallo’s Heavy Burgundy and moan about how badly they were treated. Diebenkorn, always the lanky kid in the corner of that group, never joined in on the complaining. A burning cigarette was his constant companion in almost every shot I ever made of him”

~ Fred Lyon

“I don’t go into the studio with the idea of “saying” something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue”

~ Richard Diebenkorn

I think this is one of the most expressive jazz images I've ever made. Of course, I didn't make it, I just captured it.

 

~ Fred Lyon
(1924-2022)

“I decided to photograph her as another friend had described her
“Georgia, her pure profile calm, clearer sleek black hair drawn swiftly back into a tight knot at the nape of her necktie strong white hands, touching and lifting everything, even the boiled eggs, as if they were living things-sensitive slow moving hands, coming out of the black and white, always this black and white".

 

~ Yousuf Karsh
(1908-2002)

“It’s not enough to be nice in life. You’ve got to have nerve. To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”

 

~ Georgia O’Keefe
(1887-1986)

"One day in a second-hand shop near Covent Garden, I found a 70 year old wooden Kodak. I was delighted. Like nineteenth-century cameras it had no shutter, and the wide-angle lens, with an aperture as minute as a pin-hole, was focused on infinity. In 1926, Edward Weston wrote in his diary “The camera sees more than the eyes, so why not make use of it”. My new camera saw more and saw it differently. It created a great illusion of space, an unrealistically steep perspective and it distorted. When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed."

~ Bill Brandt
(1904-1983)