#London

“A combination of the right choice of detail, the elimination of all that is inessential and the right moment that makes the picture"

 

~ Wolfgang Suschitzky
(1912-2016)

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“There was no such thing as a photography galleries in the 1930’s. Photography was not considered collectable works of art in those days”

 

~ Wolfgang Suschitzky
(1912-2016)

 

 

“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place, it is not agreeable or cheerful or easy or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent"

 

~ Oscar Wilde

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“Photographs must be taken without an exchange of glances between the photographer and the subject. Without giving, without returning anything. I just shoot”

 

~ Marc Riboud
(1923-2016)

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“To walk alone in London is the greatest rest”

~ Virginia Woolf

 

“I’m not aware that I have a specific style. I just take pictures as I come across them”

~ Wolfgang Suschitzky

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“I have done a great deal of work to make all these photos and all these prints. I feel I have nothing to be ashamed of”

 

~ Wolfgang Suschitzky
(1912-2016)

"They were getting ready for their annual Village Fete and the lady was calling a friend to get the recipe for some tarts to bake. Her little girl had been in a phone box and found out that if you pressed Button B then sometimes money came out (Do you remember the old UK phone boxes?). The Mother therefore told the child that she had to face outwards and keep her hands off the buttons. I heard this story more than 50 years later when I showed the pictures in Pembridge Village Hall and I met the former child. This picture was on the cover of the Sunday Times issue”

 

~ John Bulmer

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"I had access to what felt like a secret world. It was a subject that had been written about and dramatised but I don't think any photographers had ever tackled before. There was a change going on. Someone described it as a 'last hurrah' of the upper classes."

~ Dafydd Jones

“I had no brief, no agenda at all. They just let me loose. I was free to encounter life. There was a certain sense of grayness everywhere. That’s why these pictures are delicate and I was delicate too”

~ Bruce Davidson

“I can’t recall anyone at Picture Post Magazine mentioning the ethics of photo journalism. It was just understood, a code of behavior which reflected the seriousness of the magazine”

~ Thurston Hopkins

(1913-2014)

 

“This Royal Throne of Kings, this sceptered isle,
This earth of majesty this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi paradise
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war
This happy breed of men, this little world
This precious stone set in a silver sea
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house
Against the envy of less happier lands
This blessed plot, this earth
This realm, This England”

~ William Shakespeare
(Richard II)

“There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.”

~ Dame Vivienne Westwood
(1941–2022)

“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will”

~ Sugar Ray Robinson
(1921-1989)

“Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs”

~ Bert Hardy
(1913-1990)

“I am a lucky man. I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me"

~ André Kertész

“Only the photographer, himself or herself, knows the effects he or she wants. They should know by instinct, grounded in experience what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft light or by dark treatment”

~ Bill Brandt (1904 - 1983)

“I believe in deeply ordered chaos”

~ Francis Bacon, Painter (1909-1992)