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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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#869 - Julian Wasser
Steve McQueen, 1963
"The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first."
~ Steve McQueen
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#867 - Eve Arnold
Marilyn Monroe, on the Nevada desert going over her lines for a difficult scene she is about to play with Clark Gable in the film, "The Misfits" by John Huston, 1960
“Although she seems uncertain, her understanding of what would make her a movies star was so great. The need also was so great. The intelligence was there too. She created Marilyn. She created that character, it wasn’t the movies that did it. She did it. She had much more control with a still camera than in the movies. We would discuss what we were going to do and then we would play. We used to laugh a lot. It was great.
Neither one of us knew what we were doing and that was a bond between us. Secondly, I was not a threat to her. I had six sessions with her. The shortest was two hours which was a press event, and the longest was two months on the set of “The Misfits”. Her enemy was that she couldn’t sleep, so she would take sleeping tablets. I saw an enormous change in her over the ten years that I photographed her. In that time she had gone from a beginner to a world figure and it had taken its toll. She created “Marilyn Monroe” but it was very hard on her. To my knowledge as long as she could fantasize about being a movie star she was fine. It was when the fantasy became the reality that it was hard”~ Eve Arnold
(1912 - 2012)“A nice girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none”
~ Marilyn Monroe
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#858 - Robert Doisneau
Jacques Tati, Paris, 1949
"Jacques is the most meticulous person I know. He spent 2 hours taking the old bicycle to pieces. He has the same patience with every kind of mechanism. A gag is just another piece of clockwork”
~ Robert Doisneau
(1912-1994)
“The images are designed so that after you see the picture 2 or 3 times, it’s no longer my film. It starts to be your film. You recognize the people, you know them and you don’t even know who directed the picture. “Play Time” is nobody.~ Jacques Tati
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#852 - Sarah Moon
Le Cinema, 1995
“It could happen any day, anytime, any season. I am outside walking, wherever cars and people are whirling around. Fleeting thoughts vanishing through my mind, probably dealing with what I am out for, or supposed to be out for. But there is nothing I can grab, I am just there “in the turning world"
~Sarah Moon