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#1459 - SF Fall Show 2024 - Brett Weston
Gondolas, Venice, 1971"I’ll do the printing myself until I die. Printing is a personal thing. I couldn’t print your work. You couldn’t print mine. It wouldn’t be the same. So when I die, I’ll have all of my negatives destroyed”
Brett Weston
(1911-1993)ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#1453 - Sarah Moon
Maria Grazia Chiuri for Dior, 2017“For me personally I believe in a feminine sensibility which is not necessarily exclusive to women”
~ Sarah Moon
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#1432 - Wynn Bullock
Pebble Beach, 1970 (Printed 1973)"This photograph is a negative print: what we see here is the tonal reverse of the positive original. How it was made, however, does not intrude on our visual experience of the image, and this was important to Bullock. For some, this is a picture of fertility, generation and abundant life. The fact that these qualities are expressed through rock – a rock filled with seed pebbles aglow with new life – only serves to enhance and extend our appreciation of them."
~ Chris Johnson and Barbara Bullock-Wilson
from Wynn Bullock: 55, Phaidon Press, 2001ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#1422 - Cig Harvey
Boltonia Asteroides, Union, Maine, 2019"I put my secrets, hopes and concerns in my work. The subject matter and formal concerns of color, light and frame has always been the device to get to the story itself. I want my photographs to be a jolt. They explore a magic in the world while having one foot very much placed in reality."
~ Cig Harvey
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#1417 - Cig Harvey
Petunias, Rockport, Maine, 2020"Photography is so connected to time, its our currency"
~ Cig Harvey
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#1351 - Jeffrey Conley
Water's Edge, Venice, 2019, Printed 2024“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
- William Wordsworth
"We live in trying times. Maybe this is the one thing everyone can agree on. There is a soothing and meditative quality to observing gently breaking waves. From the sounds to the random designs of the unique patterns; these experiences can transform us by shifting focus to something real, primal, and foundational. Such was the case of this photograph, made from the Venice (California) pier. I wanted to distill the shapes I was observing into core, minimalist elements."
~ Jeffrey Conley
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#1341 - Wynn Bullock
Gravitation Acceleration (Light Pendulum), 1950 (Printed 1970's)"This is a straight positive photograph of light slowed down by air movement and friction. A tiny light was suspended from the ceiling of the darkroom above an exposed piece of film. The design was caused by gravitation slowing down the light after the light was given a single push…."
~ Wynn Bullock"My father wrote the above words on the back of a mounted print of this photograph of light. It is one of 18 images featured in the beautifully handcrafted 2017 publication of Relativity: Wynn Bullock and Albert Einstein. In his introductory essay, editor Collier Brown wrote: “In this book, 21st Editions presents two great twentieth-century thinkers, one a scientist, one an artist, but both on the same quest to perceive reality beyond the limitations of the senses. Behind both men’s work lies a kindred imagination…." Dad was fascinated by how the universe worked and photography was his way of probing its mysteries. In Gravitation Acceleration, 1950, physics and art come together in a stunningly elegant, graceful dance. "
~ Barbara Bullock-WilsonENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#1315 - Paul Cupido
Tree Ladder, 2019“I am to engage with the world with wide open senses. My work is about the magic moments of life as well as its inconveniences. I want to take pictures while forgetting about the process of photography until I’m saturated with an existential sense of life. Every step I take begins with the notion of “mono no aware", the transience of everything, the gentle melancholy of things being sensate to ephemera"
~ Paul Cupido
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#1294 - Paul Cupido
Diptych Blue Gold, 2021“Our way of life is strongly dependent on the cycle and rhythm of the seasons, the movement of the tides and the phases of the moon”
~ Paul Cupido
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#1201 - Andre Kertész
Martinique, 1972“The most valuable things in a life are a man’s memories. And they are priceless”
~ Andre Kertész
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#1184 - Cig Harvey
Clive Blossom, Rockport, Maine, 2021“It is a scientistic fact that color affects the body"
~ Cig Harvey
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#1135 - Lillian Bassman
Wonders of Water: Model Unknown, New York, Harper's Bazaar, 1959"If you ever saw me on a set—not now that I'm 94, but when I photographed for real, you know, on my feet—the moment I got interested in what I was doing, my shoes went off. I would get on the paper, dance barefoot, dance for the models, move in the way I wanted them to move, really dance barefoot in front of the camera, take on the body movements that I felt would get them to move—actually to dance in front of the camera."
~ Lillian Bassman
(1917 - 2012)ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#919 - Don Worth
Water Drops, San Francisco, 1960 (Printed 2005)“I am very fond of this image and it has qualities of the mystical and the universal with connotations of both the astronomical and also the molecular which I find satisfying. The scale is very ambiguous to most viewers and I enjoy presenting that kind of puzzle as it leaves space for many more different kinds of interpretations."
~ Don Worth