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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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“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability"

 

~ Edouard Boubat
1923-1999

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“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
(1922-2016)

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"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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"Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion."

 

~ Alexander Calder

“In photography, the smallest thing can be great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotive”

 

~ Henri Cartier Bresson
(1908-2004)

“I didn’t want to be a "woman photographer”. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman with all the world open to my camera”

 

~ Eve Arnold
1912-2012

"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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"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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"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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"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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“I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation”

 

~ Elliott Erwitt

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"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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EXHIBITION OPENING

Sheila Metzner : Objects of Desire
November 4th, 2023 - January 5th, 2024

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

 

~ Alfred Stieglitz
(1918-2006)

“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

“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
(Sonnet LXVI: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You)

“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"

 

Brassaï
(1899-1984)

“I soon understood that I could get closer to the feel of things by taking pictures.”

 

~ Charles Harbutt
1935-2015

"I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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."

~ Eve Arnold

“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability”

~ Edouard Boubat
(1923 - 1999)

"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

“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
(1912-1994)

“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”

~ Edouard Boubat(1923 - 1999)

"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"
~ John Simmons