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#1456 - Robert Doisneau
Le Baiser Blotto, 1950/Printed Later“Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss Slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile”
~ Robert Doisneau
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#1369 - Louis Stettner
Jardin des Tuileries, 1997/Printed Later“New York is a city I loved, a city that forgives nothing but accepts everyone - a place of a thousand moods and vistas, of countless faces in a moving crowd, each one silently talking to you”
~ Louis Stettner
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#1342 - Elliott Erwitt
New York, (Couple Kissing in back of car), 1953/Printed Later"When photography is good, it’s pretty interesting and when it is very good it is irrational and even magical…..nothing to do with the photographer’s conscious will or desire. When the photograph happens, it comes easily, as a gift that should not be questioned or analyzed."
~ Elliott Erwitt
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#1212 - Love is in the air!
Venice, 1959 (Printed 2020)"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."
~ Marc Chagall
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#1183 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
View from Notre Dame, Paris, France, 1955“Photography is nothing. It’s life that interests me"
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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#1177 - Charles Harbutt
The Good Kiss, New Year's Eve, Times Square, NYC, 1959-60, printed later"Photography is a unique visual language that cannot be expressed in words. As a matter of fact, if it can be expressed in words, then it probably isn’t worth photographing."
~ Charles Harbutt
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#1168 - William Claxton
Times Square, NYC, 1960, printed 1999"All I ask you to do is to listen with your eyes. The international language of jazz and photography need no special education or sophistication to be enjoyed."
~ William Claxton
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#1165 - Charles Harbutt
Flirt, Lower East Side, NY, 1960, printed later"A photograph is a collision between a person with a camera and reality. The photograph is typically as interesting as the collision is."
~ Charles Harbutt
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#1162 - Elliott Erwitt
Valencia, Spain, 1952,printed later“I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation”
~ Elliott Erwitt
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#994 - Thurston Hopkins
On the Isle de la Cité, Paris, 1952"I take the rather unpopular view - among photographers - that words and pictures need one another."
~ Thurston Hopkins
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#899 - Robert Doisneau
Le Baiser Blotto, 1950/Printed Later“There are days when the technique of an aimless stroll or destination works like a charm, flushing out pictures from the non stop urban spectacle"
~ Robert Doisneau
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#885 - Elliott Erwitt
California, Malibu Kiss“I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you,
My heart moves from cold to fire.
I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you, bend to you,
and the measure of my changing love for you,
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.Maybe January light will consume my heart with its cruel ray,
stealing my key to true calm.
In this part of the story I am the one who dies,
The only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.”
~ Pablo Neruda
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#881 - BrassaĂŻ
Lovers Reflected In Mirror, 1932 (Printed 1960's)“The real night people live at night not out of necessity, but because they they want to. They belong to the world of pleasure and love, a secret suspicious world closed to the uninitiated"
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#879 - Charles Harbutt
Flirt, Lower East Side, NY, 1960, printed later“I soon understood that I could get closer to the feel of things by taking pictures.”
~ Charles Harbutt
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#874 - Pentti Sammallahti
Helsinki, Finland (Embrace), 1983"I love her and it is the beginning of everything."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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#870 - Eve Arnold
Wedding Ceremony, Church of England, 1963“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument."
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#866 - Elliott Erwitt
Bratsk, Siberia, 1967"I was doing a magazine story about the hydroelectric dam in Bratsk, which at that time was the largest in the world, but when you’re in a place you want to look around as well so I walked into this wedding palace. You can read anything you want into it. I think that if you explain pictures it’s like explaining jokes, or as a friend of mine used to say “It’s like dissecting a frog: once it’s dissected it’s dead". If it hits you, fine. If it doesn’t, that’s fine too. A picture has more than content, it has also a position, a style and so forth, so if you get something out of it, it’s good enough: if you get something beyond that, it’s even better"
~ Elliott Erwitt
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#864 - Robert Doisneau
Le Baiser de l'OpĂ©ra, 1950“Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile. 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. My photos were like a proof that such a world could exist.”
~ Robert Doisneau
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#863 - Edouard Boubat
Le Pont Neuf, Paris, 1948“Every photo is my first photo. I have avoided nothing, roads, trains, plains, tiredness, departures, passions, morning light, desire for others, life. People often ask me “How did you begin?” I like to answer: “With light". I look out every morning, like a farmer, at the grey and white sky of Paris. I wake with the promise of sunshine”
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#855 - John Simmons
Love Poem, Chicago, 1967"I was able to look through that camera and to see things that I loved. I loved my community. I love my people as I do now"
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#846 - Robert Doisneau
La Derniere Valse Du 14 Juillet, 1949"People like my photos because they see in them what they would see if they stopped rushing about and took the time to enjoy the city."
~ Robert Doisneau