Quotes

Martine Franck | Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What…

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Joel Meyerowitz | Black & White Work

The best way is to look at the ‘old guys’ like Brassaï and Atget. The street teaches you to act…

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Helen Levitt | Girl In Window, 1972

  Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images. - Helen Levitt

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Fred Herzog | CrossingPowell, 1984

Take street pictures because it hones your instincts for speed and for quick composition. But above all what you bring…

11 years ago

John Ford | The Searchers

This no happy ending though. There is no home, no family, waiting for Ethan. He is cursed, just as he…

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Joel Meyerowitz | Taking My Time

Joel Meyerowitz has had a retrospective published in 2012 by Phaidon in conjunction with a traveling exhibit of his work.…

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Aleksander Bochenek | I Love My Sudder Street

From Le Journal de la Photographie: This is the story of Roshni Mallick and her family living on Sudder Street…

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Bob Carlos Clarke | Faithful

I want my photographs to bear the highest amount of sexual charge as possible, those touching the most animal instincts.…

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Helmut Newton | Tomb of Talma, 1977

I had found out that I did not function well in the studio, that my imagination needed the reality of…

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David Baiely | Michael Caine, 1965

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because…

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