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#1256 | Bernard Plossu
Saint Pierreville, Ardeche, 2012
"Nothing important is happening but that is precisely because a great photo doesn't necessarily have to show something important, it can be ordinary, anodyne."
~ Bernard Plossu
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#973 - Lillian Bassman
Barbara Mullen, Essex House, c. 1950
“Would you like to have an adventure now or would you like to have your tea first?”
~ J.M. Barrie
“Peter Pan”
“Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work. It’s all part of my painting background”~ Lillian Bassman
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#936 - Bernard Plossu
Saint Pierreville, Ardeche, 2012
“In photography, we don’t capture time, we evoke it. It flows like fine sand, endless. We don’t take a photograph, we “see” it, then we share it with others. I practice photography to be on one level with the world and what is happening”
~ Bernard Plossu
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#820 - Willy Ronis
Le Petit Parisian, Paris, 1952
“I had set up near a bakery at peak hour and after a few attempts, I was not sure I had the right image. Then I noticed a boy seriously counting his pennies while waiting for his turn and I explained to him what I needed from him. Exit the bakery in a hurry with the loaf held tilted under his left arm. The first attempt was too tense, the second was perfect. We went back into the bakery to eat a chocolate treat together"
~ Willy Ronis
“250 grams of magic and perfection in our daily lives. A French way of life. We had been fighting for years with bakers and the world of gastronomy for its recognition. The baguette is now a Unesco intangible heritage.”
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#816 - Jed Devine
Pear & Colander, circa 1970
“Form an extended sequence that moves from innocence to decay and return.”
~ Jed Devine
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#5 - Kristoffer Albrecht
Small Apples, 1984
I was visiting our great friend and artist, Pentti Sammallahti, in Helsinki and I casually said to him, “Perhaps there is another great photographer in Finland I should meet?”