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#1331 - Horst P. Horst
Round the Clock, N.Y., 1987
"And so from that time, I was bitten, and investigated and read and collected... and bought a lot."
~ Sir Elton John
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#1207 - Andre Kertész
Satiric Dancer, Paris, 1926/ Printed Later
“I said to her, "Do something with the spirit of the studio corner" and she started to move on the sofa. She just made a movement. I took only two photographs. No need to shoot a hundred rolls like people do today. People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment - the moment when something when something changes into something else”
~ Andre Kertész“Whatever we have done, Kertesz did first. We all owe something to Kertesz”
~ Henri Cartier Bresson
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#1206 - Allan Grant
Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the 28th Annual Academy Awards, Hollywood, CA, 1956
“Staff photographers, freelancers and everyone who owned a camera, were all hoping to get published in LIFE Magazine. It was like getting one week of fame instead of the 15 minutes Andy Warhol talked about”
~ Allan Grant
(1909-2008)ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
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#1165 - Charles Harbutt
Flirt, Lower East Side, NY, 1960, printed later
"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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