The images scrolled down below link to the latest posts from our daily collecting guide, Peter's quotes, notes and reflections from forty years of collecting and dealing in photography. Started during lockdown and continued by popular demand for almost three years now, daily posts are sent by email to our mailing list subscribers, with live works for sale and related works to explore, as well as advance previews of exhibitions and events.
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#1243 - Wolfgang Suschitzky
Charing Cross Road [puddle jumper], 1937
“I have done a great deal of work to make all these photos and all these prints. I feel I have nothing to be ashamed of”
~ Wolfgang Suschitzky
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#1029 - Dafydd Jones
Feather Ball, 1981
"I had access to what felt like a secret world. It was a subject that had been written about and dramatised but I don't think any photographers had ever tackled before. There was a change going on. Someone described it as a 'last hurrah' of the upper classes."
~ Dafydd Jones
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#1006 - Bruce Davidson
England (nannies pulling prams), 1960
“I had no brief, no agenda at all. They just let me loose. I was free to encounter life. There was a certain sense of grayness everywhere. That’s why these pictures are delicate and I was delicate too”
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#971 - Thurston Hopkins
End of a Coming Out Party, Highgate, London, 1954
“I can’t recall anyone at Picture Post Magazine mentioning the ethics of photo journalism. It was just understood, a code of behavior which reflected the seriousness of the magazine”
~ Thurston Hopkins
(1913-2014)
“This Royal Throne of Kings, this sceptered isle,
This earth of majesty this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi paradise
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war
This happy breed of men, this little world
This precious stone set in a silver sea
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house
Against the envy of less happier lands
This blessed plot, this earth
This realm, This England”
~ William Shakespeare
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#949 - London Events
Photo London & The Eye of the Collector
“There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.”
~ Dame Vivienne Westwood
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#861 - Bert Hardy
Sugar Ray Robinson, 1951
“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will”
~ Sugar Ray Robinson
(1921-1989)“Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs”
~ Bert Hardy
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#833 - André Kertész
Kew Gardens, London, 1948
“I am a lucky man. I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me"
~ André Kertész
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#822 - Bill Brandt
Francis Bacon on Primrose Hill, 1963
“Only the photographer, himself or herself, knows the effects he or she wants. They should know by instinct, grounded in experience what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft light or by dark treatment”
~ Bill Brandt (1904 - 1983)
“I believe in deeply ordered chaos”
~ Francis Bacon, Painter (1909-1992)