#Master Prints

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

 

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908-2004)

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

~ Don McCullin

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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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“Somehow the earlier photographers had as yet not captured the attitudes and gestures that women assumed. They seemed to freeze in front of the lens as if posing for their portraits whereas the top fashion illustrators would render them as they actually saw them in real life. Was there no way of achieving the same results with photography?”

~ George Hoyningen Huene

“The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her”

~ Madeleine Vionnet
(1876-1975)
French Fashion Designer

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“A new monumental dignity, a new displacement of space and time had taken hold of the visual arts. Antiquity celebrated its arrival on Montmartre to the sounds of a jazz band, Ionic columns rose next to smoking factory chimneys… Between the pedestals from which the gods of Greece looked naked and silently into the land between snorting horses and athletically built heroic figures, the ladies and gentlemen from Paris, London, New York and Biarritz sunned themselves”

~ George Hoyningen Huene

“A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn. As soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it or tries to, glorifies or destroys it or makes it into a song of beauty”

~ Elsa Schiaparelli

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Ansel Adams is justly celebrated for his epic depictions of majestic landscapes, but this rare, little discussed, haunting image of displaced children shows his profound empathy for humanity. Certainly on a par with his close colleague Dorothea Lange’s, “Migrant Mother”, certainly no less powerful.

Taking up photography at the age of 40 years old, urged on by her children as an antidote to her husband leaving to run the family plantations in India, Julia Margaret Cameron became the first great female photographer. It is so hard to find her prints in such perfect condition as this one. I had collected several in the past in not so great a condition but it was always a dream to find a 10. My dream came true with this one and it just transports me to a special pace each time I look at it.

Of course, “The Steerage” is one of the most celebrated images in the history of photography. For good reason as its' genius graphic construction and human empathy is utterly timeless.