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#1403 - Kurt Markus
White Horse Ranch, 1984, printed 2005
“I’ve entered into an unspoken, unwritten, and generally inscrutable pact with the people I have photographed and lived amongst. If I promise not to tell all I know about them, they will do the same for me”
~ Kurt Markus(1947 - 2022)
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#1377 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
Gyor, Hungary, 1964
“It is salutary to contemplate the landscapes of Bellini, Hokusai, Poussin, Corot, Cezanne, Bonnard and so many others and to go out into nature yourself, pencil in hand”
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908 - 2004)ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#1145 - Gianni Berengo Gardin
Tuscany, 1958 (Printed 2023)
"My artistic eye is black and white. I'm used to seeing and visualizing in black and white and have only one way of taking pictures."
~ Gianni Berengo Gardin
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#1142 - Kurt Markus
White Horse Ranch, Fields, Oregon, 1984
"I shoot film. I don’t think I could do work that I really believe in with the feel and the look that I want if I was shooting digitally. There’s a certain resistance that I’ve got. But the light coming through a 6×7 Pentax lens hitting on film, is something digital can’t duplicate—and I love the look of it."~ Kurt Markus(1947-2022)ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#1095 - Kurt Markus
RW Hampton, Quien Sabe Ranch, TX, 1981/Printed Later
"I have entered into an unspoken, unwritten and generally inscrutable pact with the people I have photographed and lived among: if I promise not to tell all I know about them, they will do the same for me."
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#997 - Inge Morath
Sleigh Horses South of Moscow, 1965
”As I continued to photograph I became quite joyous. I knew that I could express the things I wanted to say by giving them form through my eyes”
~ Inge Morath
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#889 - Pentti Sammallahti
Gotland, Sweden (Horse & Windmill), 1993
"Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
As the images unwind, like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind!"
~ from 'The Windmills of your Mind' (1968)
First recorded by Noel Harrison
Lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman
with music composed by Michel Legrand