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#1211 - Berenice Abbott
Edward Hopper, 1947 (Printed Later)
“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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#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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#1156 - Fred Zinnemann
New York, 1932
"I like people to be entertained, but I don't want it to be empty. I like to give some nourishment."
~ Fred Zinnemann
(1907-1997)ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#1130 - Sheila Metzner
Peony., 1998, printed 2017
"This is work. My work contains everything I love. It is all in each photograph. No darkness. No despair. No evil. No fear. Love chooses the settings. Love chooses the props. It is both the myth and the reality of my existence. My life on earth, to share. At the same time, it is a document and an homage to all that has inspired me."
~ Sheila MetznerENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#1129 - Melvin Sokolsky
Saint Germain Street, Paris, 1963, printed later
"The key point is not the technique of how the image was made, but the idea and the vision."
~ Melvin Sokolsky
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#1128 - Frank Eugene
Adam and Eve, 1910
"The very boldness with which Eugene manipulated the negative by scratching and painting forced even those with strong sympathy for the purist line of thinking like White, Day and Stieglitz to admire Eugene's particular touch...[he] created a new syntax for the photographic vocabularity, for no one before him had hand-worked negatives with such painterly intentions and a skill unsurpassed by his successors."
~ Weston Naef
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#6 - Julia Margaret Cameron
The Dream (Mary Ann Hillier), 1869
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.