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“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)

"I took my chances and reinvented film photography. My objective was to show exceptional moments."

~ Raymond Cauchetier

“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)

“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)

“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

"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

"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

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

~ Anastasia Samoylova

"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

“Recording the light of the outer subject can be linked with gaining access to one’s inner light”

~ Paul Caponigro
(1922-2024)

"My way of life, my very being is based on images capable of engraving themselves indelibly in our inner soul’s eye."

~ Louis Stettner

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

~ Martin Luther

"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

"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

"It is a question of luck and circumstance. I prefer winter, the worse the weather, the better the photograph will be." 

~ Pentti Sammallahti

“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

"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

"Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived."

~ Wynn Bullock

“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

“Darling, you are in love with my camera!” 

~ Georges Dambier 
(1925-2011)

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

~William Shakespeare
“Macbeth”

"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

“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)

"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

"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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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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"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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“For me personally I believe in a feminine sensibility which is not necessarily exclusive to women”

 

~ Sarah Moon

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“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)

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

~ Steve McCurry

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

 

~ Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)

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

 

~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

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"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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“Everything inside the frame is equally important”

 

~ Pentti Sammallahti

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“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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"When I was in high school – 1960s – I became interested in photography and that was when I remember seeing your father’s work for the first time…. Like everyone of that era, I was impressed by Edward Weston, Ansel Adams…and other big names of the times, but your father’s photographs ended up being much more than that to me. His pictures haunt me, inspire me, and give me the courage to write. His bio suggests a lifelong searcher to me, a man on a quest to understand life and put his heart into every picture he created. I know that can’t be an easy path as it is also one I’ve chosen. The destroyed typewriter is probably my favorite image, if I am forced to name one…. Without your dad’s work…I wouldn’t be the writer I am today."

 

~ Jo-Ann Mapson
from a letter written to Wynn’s daughter Barbara
October 19, 2011

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“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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"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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"The White Church in Key West drew my attention because of its perfect compact proportions and a bit of patina, while white picket fences always remind me of Paul Strand’s image. While photographing in Florida in the 1930s, young Walker Evans wrote a letter to a friend listing notable observations about the state, including ‘religion in decay.’ That list is reproduced in my book ‘Floridas,’ which includes this White Church photograph."

 

~ Anastasia Samoylova

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“One day I wanted to make some nude photographs which I had never done before. Lisa had a very beautiful body and was not afraid of her body...she was used to "Nacktkultur"

 

~ Horst P. Horst

 

“I was always aware that Horst had a warm feeling for the personalty, the sexuality of me as a model. Even at our very first sitting when we were both so inexperienced, I felt lapped in calm and beauty and luxury and glamour-and yet as though I were in my own house, not just posing in it, but living in its myself”

 

 

~ Lisa Fonssagrives

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“I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance…. I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually inspiration comes. Instinct is the same as inspiration and eventually it comes”

 

~ Manuel Álvarez Bravo
(1902-2002)

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"Photography is so connected to time, its our currency"

 

~ Cig Harvey

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“There are no words to convey the moods of those moments. I believe that if I am able to express what I saw and felt, the image will contain qualities that may provide a basis for an imaginative response by the viewer”

 

~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

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“Paris is always a good idea.”

 

~ Audrey Hepburn
(Sabrina)

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"I find the south Iceland coast to be ever compelling. The conditions of lighting and weather are constantly in transition (often quite cold and windy). Sometimes the sky, sea, and land seem to merge seemingly without separation. It’s a wondrous, vast, and elemental place. A place to find perspective."

 

~ Jeffrey Conley

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"Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature."

 

~ Paul Caponigro

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“Curiosity is everything. I don’t think you can create luck. You’re either lucky or you’re not. I don’t know if it’s really luck or if it’s just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you’re curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you’re likely to be more lucky than if you stay at home .”

 

~ Elliott Erwitt

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“The joy of geometry ! When you realize everything is right"

 

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

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“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it”

 

~ Irving Penn
(1917-2009)

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"My collecting mantra is very simple: always be open and receptive, and only collect something that moves you or changes you in some way.  Collecting is like reading a great novel; you are one person before and one person after. That’s the litmus test on whether or not you should acquire an image. Does it haunt you?"

 

~ Peter Fetterman

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