#Nude

“One day I wanted to make some nude photographs which I had never done before. Lisa had a very beautiful body and was not afraid of her body...she was used to "Nacktkultur"

 

~ Horst P. Horst

 

“I was always aware that Horst had a warm feeling for the personalty, the sexuality of me as a model. Even at our very first sitting when we were both so inexperienced, I felt lapped in calm and beauty and luxury and glamour-and yet as though I were in my own house, not just posing in it, but living in its myself”

 

 

~ Lisa Fonssagrives

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“I try to be aware of light at all times, I am always watching for it. I am not looking at light because I am a photographer. I am photographing because I am deeply involved with light”

 

~ Ruth Bernhard
(1905-2006)

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“You see, when models work with men, they strike up a pose and so on…..With me they were always totally relaxed, I was just a woman photographing another woman. And who was very relaxed as well.”

 

~ Lillian Bassman

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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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"When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity."

 

~ Eikoh Hosoe

“I try to be aware of light at all times. I’m always watching for it. I am not looking at light because I am a photographer. I am a photographer because I am deeply involved with light”

~ Ruth Bernhard

“I believe in and make no apologies for photography. It is the most important graphic medium of our time. It does not have to be -indeed cannot be compared to painting. It has different means and aims”

~ Edward Weston

“Men photograph a female nude as if she belonged to them. I photograph a woman as part of the universe”

 

~ Ruth Bernhard

“A picture is like a prayer”

 

~ Harry Callahan
(1912-1999)

"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)

“If you choose your subject selectively, intuitively, the camera can write poetry.”

 

~ Harry Callahan

“The older I get the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about something. When I photograph, I try to be as aware of my feelings as I can be to somehow try and get them out of me and onto the film in terms of the way I am responding or seeing the world”

~ Judy Dater

“Eleanor was innocent and I was innocent.
I just try to photograph what I like. I thought she was beautiful. I intuitively photographed her. All my photography is innocent”

~ Harry Callahan

“Both Huene and I had this extraordinary feeling about Greece. The physical beauty of the men and women, the sun and the fresh air and the sea”

~ Horst P. Horst

“My interest in photography has something to do with the aesthetic and that there should be a little beauty in everything”

 

Imogen Cunningham
(1883-1976)