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#1103 - Ezra Stoller
TWA Terminal Interior, 1962
"Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass."
~ Ezra Stoller
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#1097 - Elliott Erwitt
New York City, [Empire State Building], 1955
"It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture."
~ Elliott Erwitt
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#1034 - Fred Lyon
Golden Gate Bridge, Old Fort Point at Top Left, 1959
"A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams."
~ Herb Caen (1916-1997)
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#1027 - Steve McCurry
Reflection, Agra, India, 1999
"Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face."
~ Steve McCurry
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#956 - Bernard Plossu
Marseille, 1975
“My camera is like the arrow. Do I reach the target or does the target reach me or is it the same thing? It’s all very emotional.”
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#944 - Berenice Abbott | Graduation 2023
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954 / Printed Later
“We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.”
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#940 - Bernard Plossu
La Maison de Monet, Giverny, 2011
“I am possessed by Photography”
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#935 - Ruth Bernhard
Eighth Street Movie Theater, New York [Frederick Kiesler, Architect], 1946
“I never question what to do. It tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help”
~ Ruth Bernhard
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#1 - Anonymous
The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem c. 1860
Jerusalem has been, and is, the spiritual home to three major religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. To say it is a magical place is a great understatement.
I have seen and collected many images of The Holy Land but this recent acquisition is I think the greatest I have ever seen taken at this special place. I believe it to be a unique print. It is as if Irving Penn had been transported back in time.