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  • #1709 - Ralph Gibson

    #1709 - Ralph Gibson

    Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, 2004
    "Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode, from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case the eyes have it and the imagination will always soar further than was expected.”

    Ralph Gibson
  • #1708 - Henry Wessel

    #1708 - Henry Wessel

    Walapai, Arizona, 1971
    “The world is filled with incredible things. So I’m happy to just let my eye be caught by something. If something catches my eye that’s enough reason to take the picture.”
    ~
    Henry Wessel
    (1942 - 2018)
  • #1707 - Ralph Eugene Meatyard

    #1707 - Ralph Eugene Meatyard

    Untitled - 2 boys and doorways, 1960
    “The camera is an unsophisticated mechanical instrument which, like a mirror, reflects passively without a conscience. The artist must supply the conscience.” 

    ~ Ralph Eugene Meatyard 
    (1925-1972)
  • #1706 - Michael Kenna

    #1706 - Michael Kenna

    Avenue of Three Fountains, Versailles, France, 1996
    “I look at this image and applaud the artists and artisans who made these standing sculptures and placed them in the stately gardens of Versailles. My mind inevitably wanders to Andre Le Nôtre, (1613-1700), the landscape architect who created many such wonderful perspectives of garden topiary in and around Paris. I then telescope back to take a more distant view of planet earth, a speck in our immense universe, with all the magnificence, beauty and mystery of it all. In 1996, I stopped, looked, saw and appreciated what was in front of me, on one of the many thousands of frosty mornings Versailles has experienced. I clicked the shutter on my camera, (which was made by somebody else, in another country). The image exposed on film, (manufactured thousands of miles away). It was processed in a laboratory, (in another distant city). I made the eventual print, in my own darkroom, and even had the audacity to sign it. But, let’s face it, I was and remain a bit part actor in an enormous cast of giant characters, and I’m absolutely fine with that.”
    ~
    Michael Kenna
  • #1705 - Dolores Marat

    #1705 - Dolores Marat

    Le chameau heureux, Tunisie, 1997
    "Photography has always been my life. I've always taken photos. I always have my Leica on me and, as soon as I feel an emotion in relation to something I see, I photograph it, no matter where I am."

    ~ Dolorès Marat
  • #1704 - Elliott Erwitt

    #1704 - Elliott Erwitt

    Venice, Italy, 1965
    “I devised a little technique to get around the restrictions and successfully take photos in a museum. All you need is a small camera that is inconspicuous and doesn’t make too much noise. When the attendant is not looking, you adjust it to your eye level and cough slightly while pressing the button to disguise the noise of the shutter release. You can also bribe the attendant, a more efficient and direct practice in some countries.”
    ~
    Elliott Erwitt
    (1928 - 2023)
  • #1703 - Arthur Leipzig

    #1703 - Arthur Leipzig

    Chalk Games, New York City, 1950

    “The city was my home. As I look back at the work I did during that period, I realize that I was a witness to a time that no longer exists, a more innocent time. While I know that the city has changed, that the streets are dirtier and meaner, the energy that I love is still there. No matter where I go, I keep coming back to photography New York. Of course the “good old days” were not all sweetness and light. There was poverty, racism, corruption and violence in those days too, but somehow we believed in the possible. We believed in hope.”
    ~
    Arthur Leipzig 
    (1918 - 2014)

    “Having seen so much it seems that Arthur Leipzig wanted to go on seeing much more land what he has shown us remains hauntingly clear. His images say, look at us and be born again. Taken out of time they refuse to grow faded, and with the clock moving on, Arthur Leipzig’s camera should be moving with it. He should never yield to inactivity. Life as he shows it is what life is all about.” 
    ~
    Gordon Parks 
    (1912 - 2006)

  • #1702 - Gianni Berengo Gardin
    “Photographers stay young because until the end they would like to pull off one more good shot.”

    ~ Gianni Berengo Gardin
  • #1700 - Ron Cooper

    #1700 - Ron Cooper

    Lauren Greyhawk, Ohkay Owingeh
    “My photography is rooted in a curiosity and reverence for the human experience. I’ve always been fascinated by people. ”
    Ron Cooper
  • #1701 - Pentti Sammallahti

    #1701 - Pentti Sammallahti

    Seoul, Korea (Three Birds), 2016
    “I love to watch very common species- sparrows, crows, pigeons, ducks, gulls, domestic birds- from home doorsteps to the ends of the earth. They are lovely and easy and sometimes funny to observe.”
    ~ Pentti Sammallahti
  • #1699 - Kristoffer Albrecht

    #1699 - Kristoffer Albrecht

    Cyclists from above, Beijing, 1989
    “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
    Susan Sontag
    (1933 - 2004)
  • #1698 - Arnold Newman

    #1698 - Arnold Newman

    Igor Stravinsky, New York City, 1946
    “We don’t take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds. The camera is nothing more than a tool.”

    ~ Arnold Newman
    (1918-2006) 
  • #1697 - Don McCullin

    #1697 - Don McCullin

    Early Morning, West Hartlepool Steel Foundry, UK, 1963
    “Photography has given me a life. The very least I could do was to try and articulate these stories with as much compassion and clarity as they deserve, with as loud a voice as I could muster. Anything less would be mercenary.”

    ~ Don McCullin
  • #1696 - George Tice

    #1696 - George Tice

    From the Chrysler Building, New York, 1978
    “I don’t speak emotionally about my pictures.That’s for other people to do. I will say that I love my photos. That’s what keeps me going. Photography teaches us to see and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish, I was always looking for beauty”

    ~ George Tice
    (1938-2025)
  • #1694 - Josef Ehm

    #1694 - Josef Ehm

    Summer, 1935
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

    ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Great Gatsby

     

  • #1496 - Bert Hardy

    #1496 - Bert Hardy

    Cockney Life at the Elephant and Castle, January 9th, 1949
    “I do what I feel, that’s all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That’s all I’ve ever done"

    ~ Bert Hardy 
    (1913-1995)
  • #1495 - Raymond Cauchetier

    #1495 - Raymond Cauchetier

    Belmondo and Seberg - Champs Elysées, 1959
    "I took my chances and reinvented film photography. My objective was to show exceptional moments."

    ~ Raymond Cauchetier
  • #1494 - Louis Stettner

    #1494 - Louis Stettner

    "Crossing the Seine" Mother and Child, Paris, 1950
    “A photographer’s style, the way he or she gives shape or form to whatever they photograph, is inevitably influenced by the photographer’s past. Only by honestly building on what we have inherited can we genuinely make a new contribution. Every creative photographer is in a sense the biographer of every photographer that has gone before them”

    ~ Louis Stettner
    (1922-2016)
  • #1490 - Elliott Erwitt

    #1490 - Elliott Erwitt

    Paris, France, 1951
    “I take a lot of pictures of dogs because I like dogs, because they don't object to being photographed, and because they don't ask for prints.”

    ~ Elliott Erwitt
    (1928 - 2023)
  • #1488 - Sebastião Salgado

    #1488 - Sebastião Salgado

    Iceberg between the Paulet Island and the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, 2005
    “I’m working because I love photography. I love the people that I photograph. I love my planet and that’s just my language”

    ~ Sebastião Salgado
  • #1487 - Rowland Scherman

    #1487 - Rowland Scherman

    Bob Dylan, 1965
    "He had the audience in his hand right from the start. The crowd went nuts and gave him a standing ovation. Of course Dylan buzz lasted beyond, far beyond, that signature performance."

    ~ Rowland Scherman
  • #1486 - George Tice

    #1486 - George Tice

    Farm in Mist, Lancaster, PA, 1962
    "It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal."

    ~ George Tice
  • #1485 - Anastasia Samoylova

    #1485 - Anastasia Samoylova

    Reflection, Lake Placid, 2020
    “Any image you see of mine is a bit meta; you can’t take it at face value,” 

    ~ Anastasia Samoylova
  • #1484 - Michael Kenna

    #1484 - Michael Kenna

    Mt. Kaibetsu, Koshimizu, Hokkaido, 2004
    "Working initially in Japan and then further afield in Asia reaffirmed for me what many artists, such as Albers, Brandt and Rothko, had already taught me: it is not necessary, or even desirable, to fill a rectangle with details. This white field of snow, shaded from grey to white, invites me, and I hope other viewers, to wander into its open expanse, leaving our foot prints and other tracks behind, before gazing into the distance where a magical mountain appears, floating on the horizon, almost as a mirage. On the right, black trees mark the edge of a forest, suggesting a whole other point of departure. Photography records and describes, but also interprets and invites. As the world continues to spin faster and faster, I increasingly prefer to spend time away from screens, crowds and buildings, out in nature. If that is not possible, I can at least look at artworks made ion these places and get lost in my imagination."


    ~ Michael Kenna
  • #1483 - Paul Caponigro

    #1483 - Paul Caponigro

    Shoreline, Montauk Beach, Long Island, NY, 1972
    “Recording the light of the outer subject can be linked with gaining access to one’s inner light”

    ~ Paul Caponigro
    (1922-2024)
  • #1482 - Louis Stettner
    "My way of life, my very being is based on images capable of engraving themselves indelibly in our inner soul’s eye."

    ~ Louis Stettner
  • #1481 - Kristoffer Albrecht

    #1481 - Kristoffer Albrecht

    Small Apples, 1984
    "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

    ~ Martin Luther
  • #1480 - Cig Harvey

    #1480 - Cig Harvey

    Apple Trees (Last Light), 2021
    "The experience I want the viewer to have with this collection of photographs is the same as when I find the images—a feeling in the body, a witness to something rare in an everyday world. Experience this. Feel this. They are an invitation to experience the natural world in an immersive way, to find and celebrate beauty in the everyday."

    ~ Cig Harvey
  • #1479 - Andre Kertesz

    #1479 - Andre Kertesz

    Stairs at Montmartre, Paris, 1926
    "Each time André Kertész's shutter clicks I feel his heart beating; in the Twin hole of his eye I see Pythagoras' sparkle. All this in an admirable continuity of curiosity."

    ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • #1478 - Pentti Sammallahti

    #1478 - Pentti Sammallahti

    Helsinki, Finland (Embrace), 1983
    "It is a question of luck and circumstance. I prefer winter, the worse the weather, the better the photograph will be." 

    ~ Pentti Sammallahti
  • #1477 - Earlie Hudnall

    #1477 - Earlie Hudnall

    Girl with Flag, 1991
    “The camera is only a tool. It is up to the viewer to come to their own conclusion once they look at the picture based upon their experience.”

    ~ Earlie Hudnall
  • #1476 - Susan Burnstine

    #1476 - Susan Burnstine

    The Road Most Traveled , 2006
    "The Road Most Traveled is one of the most personal images I’ve taken, as it features my beloved Australian Kelpie of 21 years, Blue. The image was appears in my first series and book, Within Shadows (Charta, 2011) and was shot during our daily hike in 2006 at Runyon Canyon in the Hollywood Hills. It was created with one the first handmade medium format, film cameras and lens prototypes I built over the past twenty years. Effects are achieved entirely in-camera, rather than with post-processing manipulations. Since 2005, I have created twenty-four handmade medium format film cameras, primarily made out of plastic, vintage camera parts and random household objects, with single-element lenses molded from hobby plastic and rubber. My cameras have between one and three shutter speeds, so controlling the light involves stacking numerous filters, as I do not have the luxury of multiple apertures or shutter speeds. Learning to overcome the extensive optical and technical limitations to achieve effective results has involved years of practice and refinement, especially with moving subjects, as in the case with my dog, Blue."

    ~ Susan Burnstine
  • #1475 - Wynn Bullock

    #1475 - Wynn Bullock

    Point Lobos Tide Pools, 1972
    "Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived."

    ~ Wynn Bullock
  • #1474 - Henri Cartier-Bresson

    #1474 - Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948
    “Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven’t left any holes, that you’ve captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.”

    ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • #1473 - Georges Dambier

    #1473 - Georges Dambier

    Marie Helene et Le Poisson Rouge, 1957
    “Darling, you are in love with my camera!” 

    ~ Georges Dambier 
    (1925-2011)
  • #1472 - Wynn Bullock

    #1472 - Wynn Bullock

    Night Scene, 1959
    "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble"

    ~William Shakespeare
    “Macbeth”
  • #1471 - Cig Harvey

    #1471 - Cig Harvey

    Night Irises, 2023
    "What I can’t believe is how much I love photography even after all these years, it’s still brand new to me even though, you know, I started working the dark room at thirteen, it’s been my only job, whether I was teaching it or making it."

    ~ Cig Harvey
  • #1470 - Brett Weston

    #1470 - Brett Weston

    Century Plant, Baja California, 1967
    “My eye likes to isolate. It comes with traveling and with constantly looking. It’s a pursuit, a continuous thing. Matisse was painting until he was 80 or so and Casals played into his 90’s. I’m more rabid than ever. I see new things all the time. I was out to Point Lobos yesterday - I’ve worked there 50 years-and I saw new things. Nature keeps changing things. That’s why I like to travel and see. It’s kind of a mad passion. But that’s the way I am”

    ~ Brett Weston
    (1911-1993)
  • #1469 - Kurt Markus
    "BoBo was our first Golden Retriever who adored Kurt. Bobo would search the house for Kurts socks and T Shirts. He would hide the socks in his bed and lick and cuddle with them while we all slept. Kurt was shooting portraits of Lisa Marie at our lake house when Bobo decided he wanted Kurts photo cloth that Kurt used for his Graflex. Kurt had to then do a portrait of his beloved Bobo."
    ~ Maria Markus

     

  • #1467 - Neil Leifer

    #1467 - Neil Leifer

    Los Angeles Dodgers Sandy Koufax (32) victorious after winning Game 4 and championship series vs New York Yankees at Dodger Stadium, October 6, 1963
    "The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews."
    ~ Sandy Koufax
  • #1466 - Cole Weston

    #1466 - Cole Weston

    Surf and Headlands, 1958
    “I inherited photography as my birthright. But I’m a color photographer. That’s what I do. Whether you like it or not. There is nothing wrong with black or white, but I’m into color and I like it!”

    ~ Cole Weston
    “Cole - the baby, yet I would guess the oldest soul of them all, a little rogue, but a dear rogue, with mischievous ways and daring eyes”
    ~ Edward Weston
  • #1465 - Paul Cupido

    #1465 - Paul Cupido

    Reprise, 2023
    “It's about the little note, the unpretentiousness that lies in the snapshot. Now that everything seems to be generable, the snapshot remains invaluable.”
    ~ Paul Cupido
  • #1464 - Cig Harvey

    #1464 - Cig Harvey

    Sky Lantern, 2017

    “I really think of photography as this sort of Ouija board, like it’s telling you something and you need to listen. And you need to be a good date when you’re listening and not talk too much and really absorb what you’re making. Because I think a lot us photographers make a lot but we don’t spend much time analyzing why we were drawn to that area or this person or why we got up at dawn and photographed this river. So I really love that sort of duality of the conscious and unconscious mind coming together"

     

    ~ Cig Harvey

  • #1463 - Don McCullin

    #1463 - Don McCullin

    Early Morning, West Hartlepool Steel Foundry, UK, 1963

    “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures”

    ~ Don McCullin

  • #1462 - Ruth Bernhard

    #1462 - Ruth Bernhard

    Angles, 1969 / Printed Later
    “My images reach dimensions words cannot touch. My quest, through the magic of light and shadow is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal”
    ~ Ruth Bernhard
    (1905-2006)
  • #1461 - John Simmons

    #1461 - John Simmons

    Nina Simone, Nashville, TN, 1971
    “While you’re on stage, the audience is standing and applauding and yelling. But when you get home, you take off all your clothes and get into bed alone and that can really do something to your head and your heart.

    ~ Nina Simone


    "Time can pass and everything can change in the world except the emotion you get from a photograph”

    ~ John Simmons
  • #1460 - SF Fall Show 2024 - Sarah Moon

    #1460 - SF Fall Show 2024 - Sarah Moon

    Yves Saint Laurent for Dior, 2022

    “Through my work as a model I naturally became interested in photography.. fashion photography, and at the beginning it was from the magazines of the time. That’s how I discovered the photos of Avedon, Irving Penn, Newton or Guy Bordin. And then it was through opportunity, the long waits in the studios during the fashion collections, and the chance of having a Nikon on loan, that I was able to start shooting back stage, and outside. I would take shots of my model colleagues. Yes, after 50 years of activity I define myself as a photographer”

     

    ~ Sarah Moon  

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  • #1459 - SF Fall Show 2024 - Brett Weston

    "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)

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  • #1458 - Robert Doisneau

    #1458 - Robert Doisneau

    Cour Carrée du Louvre, 1969

    “So you arrive in a place that seems good, where things are composed harmoniously in the space. Then you wait. Waiting with irrational crazy hope. Then people come into the frame and “click” you take the picture"

     

    ~ Robert Doisneau
    (1912-1994)

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  • #1457 - SF Fall Show 2024 - Paul Cupido

    #1457 - SF Fall Show 2024 - Paul Cupido

    Hommage to Kato I, 2021
  • #1456 - Robert Doisneau

    #1456 - Robert Doisneau

    Le Baiser Blotto, 1950/Printed Later
    “Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss Slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile”

    ~ Robert Doisneau
    (1912-1994)
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  • #1455 - Gordon Parks

    #1455 - Gordon Parks

    James Galanos Fashion, Hollywood, California, 1961, printed 2015

    “I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well”

     

    ~ Gordon Parks
    (1912-2006)

     

     

    “My clothes are too chic for most women. If they want to wear them all right, but they’ve got to live up to them”

     

    ~ James Galanos
    (1924-2016)

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  • #1454 - Anastasia Samoylova

    #1454 - Anastasia Samoylova

    Garden, Micanopy, 2020

    “Landscape is nearly always present in one way or another in my work. Perhaps the key here is the triple meaning of “landscape”, a type of picture, a type of view and a type of place. The three cannot really be separated. The experience of a place is shaped in advance by our experience of images of it and of related places. It is easy to realize this but coming to terms with the profound implication of it can take a long time. It is a moving dynamic."


    ~ Anastasia Samoylova

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  • #1453 - Sarah Moon

    #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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  • #1452 - Louis Stettner

    #1452 - Louis Stettner

    Coming to America, 1951/Printed Later
    “My Credo, my way of life, my very being is based on images capable of engraving themselves indelibly in our inner soul’s eye. Also, through my personal vision, to reveal what cannot be readily seen, to capture what is most meaningful, to enrich our appreciation of life. It is to explore and celebrate the human condition and the world around us, nature and man together, to find significance in suffering and all that is profound, beautiful and nourishes the soul. Above all, I believe in creative work through struggle to increase human wisdom and happiness”~ Louis Stettner(1922 - 2016)
  • #1452 - Louis Stettner

    #1452 - Louis Stettner

    Coming to America, 1951/Printed Late

    “My Credo, my way of life, my very being is based on images capable of engraving themselves indelibly in our inner soul’s eye. Also, through my personal vision, to reveal what cannot be readily seen, to capture what is most meaningful, to enrich our appreciation of life. It is to explore and celebrate the human condition and the world around us, nature and man together, to find significance in suffering and all that is profound, beautiful and nourishes the soul. Above all, I believe in creative work through struggle to increase human wisdom and happiness”

     

    ~ Louis Stettner
    (1922-2016)

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  • #1451 - Sabine Weiss

    #1451 - Sabine Weiss

    Restaurant Coquet, Paris, 1953 (Printed Later)

    “I have never been drawn by one thing in particular other than finishing what I started. That’s always been an obsession of mine. I was also determined to be successful in all the assignments I undertook. When I worked on advertising shoots, I chose the sets myself and really took things seriously. In my personal work, my commitment lays in the interest I had in seeing everything around me, in documenting it all and in letting myself be surprised by people, by what was going on in the street and all around me"

     

    ~ Sabine Weiss
    (1924-2021)

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  • #1450 - Ruth Bernhard

    #1450 - Ruth Bernhard

    Two Leaves, 1952

    “Take one camera with film: add one knowing eye and as much strong feeling as you have available: mix well with a generous portion of your own unique personality: expose to the right light for the exact fraction, and process until beauty appears”

     

    ~ Ruth Bernhard
    (1905-2006)

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  • #1449 - Sabine Weiss

    #1449 - Sabine Weiss

    Lost and Found, New York, 1955

    “I was very sensitive to poverty, to children and people in need. I probably had a more compassionate way of looking at things”

     

    ~ Sabine Weiss
    (1924-2021)

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  • #1448 - Manuel Álvarez Bravo

    #1448 - Manuel Álvarez Bravo

    Pátzcuaro, c.1940s /Printed Later

    “Throughout my life I’ve never pursued anything. I just let things pursue me, they just show up. This is the way I’ve lead my life, not just in photography but in life”

     

    ~ Manuel Álvarez Bravo
    (1902-2002)

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  • #1447 - Sarah Moon

    #1447 - Sarah Moon

    Le Cinema, edition #7/20, 1995

    “Fashion has been something I’ve done and enjoyed— I love fashion but I also like other things I’ve photographed, whatever had an echo”

     

    ~ Sarah Moon

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  • #1445 - Wynn Bullock

    #1445 - Wynn Bullock

    Point Lobos Rock, 1973 (Printed 1973)

    "Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as Paul Klee who find scientific inquiries compatible with art, influence me far more than most photographers. My interest in such people is to share in their wonderment of nature and, in sharing, find added inducement to go out, look, feel, and photograph."

     

    ~ Wynn Bullock
    (1902-1975)

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  • #1444 - Anastasia Samoylova

    #1444 - Anastasia Samoylova

    Pink Walls, Sarasota, 2020

    "Florida’s unique blend of natural beauty and artificial spectacle makes it endlessly photographable. Its landscapes are visually striking, with dramatic skies, lush vegetation and an ever-changing coastline. At the same time, there is this human layer — urban sprawl, tourism culture and environmental tension. The juxtaposition of the pristine and the constructed and the tension between preservation and overdevelopment create a rich visual narrative."

     

    ~ Anastasia Samoylova

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  • #1443 - Steve McCurry - SF Fall Show 2024

    #1443 - Steve McCurry - SF Fall Show 2024

    The Afghan Girl, Sharbut Gula, Pakistan, 1984

    "I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in."

    ~ Steve McCurry

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  • #1441 - Robert Doisneau

    #1441 - Robert Doisneau

    Le Fox-Terrier du Pont des Arts, 1953

    “The world I was trying to present was one where I would feel good, where people would be friendly, where I could find the tenderness I longed for"

     

    ~ Robert Doisneau
    (1912-1994)

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  • #1440 - Berenice Abbott

    #1440 - Berenice Abbott

    Edward Hopper, 1947 (Printed Later)

    “What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity."

     

    ~ Berenice Abbott
    (1898-1991)

    "If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist and this inner life would result in his or her personal vision of the world. No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination”

     

    ~ Edward Hopper

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  • #1439 - Elliott Erwitt

    #1439 - Elliott Erwitt

    Bird in Flight, France, Orleans, 1952 (Printed Later)

    "The best things happen when you happen to be somewhere with a camera”

     

    ~ Elliott Erwitt
    (1928-2023)

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  • #1438 - Sebastião Salgado

    #1438 - Sebastião Salgado

    Church Gate Station, Western Railroad Line, Bombay, India, 1995 (Printed 2018)

    “A fantastic picture you do in a fraction of a second but to arrive to do this picture you must put your life in there, to give your time and to receive it from the community that you come to see”

     

    ~ Sebastião Salgado

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  • #1437 - Steve McCurry

    #1437 - Steve McCurry

    Blue City, India, 2010 (Printed 2020)

    "What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling."

     

    ~ Steve McCurry

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  • #1436 - Don McCullin

    #1436 - Don McCullin

    Fishermen, Scarborough Beach, 1965

    “The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people and how they exist and how they fight for space and time and pleasure”

     

    ~ Don McCullin

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  • #1435 - Paul Cupido

    #1435 - Paul Cupido

    Mukayu 28, 2019

    "My working method consists of two parts. The first is collecting, a fully intuitively process, in which the emotional experience is key and technique is of minor or very little importance. When photographing, for example, I don’t pay that many attention to sharpness. However, in the second stage, after the material has been collected, I’ll put all the dedication into the work, the editing, the printing. This process can take a long time, just like aging wine. It is impossible to predict what will come out, but I treat this second part with the most care and attention. Knowing, that the real beauty lies in the imperfection, the little mistakes, edges or elements that you didn't foresee."

     

    ~ Paul Cupido

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  • #1434 - Horst P. Horst

    #1434 - Horst P. Horst

    Dali Costumes - Paris, 1939 (Printed Later)

    "I don’t think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal”

     

    Horst P. Horst
    (1906-1999)

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  • #1433 - Chester Higgins

    #1433 - Chester Higgins

    Eyes of Allah, Islam [Muslim Woman in Brooklyn], 1990, printed May 8, 2007

    “Behind everything is an energy, a spirit, an essence. That gives it existence. Photography is a means to appreciate the many manifestations of my collective self. The camera is my vehicle of exploration in capturing images that make my heart smile. I’m collecting external mirrors of myself”

     

    ~ Chester Higgins Jr

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  • #1432 - Wynn Bullock

    #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, 2001

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  • #1431 - Sabine Weiss

    #1431 - Sabine Weiss

    L'homme qui court, Paris, 1953 (Printed Later)

    “I realized very young that photography would be my means of expression. I was more visual than intellectual. I was not very good at studying. I left high school. I left on a summer day on a bicycle.”

     

    ~ Sabine Weiss
    (1924-2021)

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  • #1429 - Willy Ronis

    #1429 - Willy Ronis

    Bouliste à Aubagne, 1947

    "We were spending our summer vacation near Aubagne where I photographed this older man playing boules. It is an ordinary scene, but I found the man very colorful in his postures.”

     

    ~ Willy Ronis
    (1910 -2009)

     

    When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
    And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
    And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
    Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

    How many loved your moments of glad grace,
    And loved your beauty with love false or true,
    But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
    And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

    And bending down beside the glowing bars,
    Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
    And paced upon the mountains overhead
    And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.


    ~ William Butler Yeats
    (1865 - 1939)

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  • #1428 - Ansel Adams

    #1428 - Ansel Adams

    Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941

    “It’s a romantic, emotional moment in time”

     

    ~ Ansel Adams
    (1902-1984)

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  • #1427 - Edward S. Curtis

    #1427 - Edward S. Curtis

    Hopi Snake Dancer in Costume, 1904

    "In the beginning, I had no thought of making the series [The North American Indian] large enough to be of any value in the future, but the thing has grown so that I now see its great possibilities, and certainly nothing could be of much greater value."

     

    ~ Edward S. Curtis
    (1868–1952)

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  • #1426 - Pentti Sammallahti

    #1426 - Pentti Sammallahti

    Lake Numazawa, Fukushima, Japan, 2005

    “Everything inside the frame is equally important”

     

    ~ Pentti Sammallahti

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  • #1425 - Kristoffer Albrecht

    #1425 - Kristoffer Albrecht

    Dog With Suitcase, 1982

    “The basis for my artistic work is concrete observation. I am interested in the photographs as a physical object and all the prints are made by myself. "

     

    ~ Kristoffer Albrecht

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