‘There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.’
Ansel Easton Adams (American photographer and environmentalist) – February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984.
Category: Photographer
Born on this day – David Bailey
‘I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.’
David Bailey (English fashion and portrait photographer) – January 2, 1938 (age 83)
Born on this day – Helmut Newton
‘I always kept my equipment down to a minimum two cameras, each with three lenses, a flash that would clip onto the camera body, and one assistant. I did not want to spend time thinking about hardware; I wanted that time to concentrate on the girl and the world around her.’
Helmut Newton (German-Australian photographer) – October 31, 1920 – January 23, 2004.
Born on this day – Paul Strand
‘I’ve always wanted to be aware of what’s going on around me, and I’ve wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time’
Paul Strand (American photographer and filmmaker) – October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976.
Born on this day… Margaret Bourke-White
‘To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.’
Margaret Bourke-White (American documentary photographer) – June 14, 1904 – August 27 1971.
Born on this day – Norman Parkinson
‘I like to make people look as good as they’d like to look, and with luck, a shade better.’
Norman Parkinson, CBE (English portrait and fashion photographer) – April 21, 1913 – February 15, 1990.
Born on this day – Robert Doisneau
‘I like people for their weaknesses and faults. I get on well with ordinary people. We talk. We start with the weather, and little by little we get to the important things. When I photograph them it is not as if I were examining them with a magnifying class, like a cold and scientific observer. It’s very brotherly. And it’s better, isn’t it, to shed some light on those people who are never in the limelight.’
Robert Doisneau (French photographer) – April 14, 1912 – April 1, 1994.
Born on this day – Martine Franck
‘I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn’t have to chat.’
Martine Franck (Belgian documentary and portrait photographer, co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation) – April 2, 1938 – August 16, 2012.
Bargain books!
Bargain books!
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 18mm, 1/60s, f8, ISO 1250
As an old friend of my wife’s used to say ‘money is never wasted on books or pork products’
I picked these three up on Sunday from a shop at one of the local tourist traps… None were priced and I was pleasantly surprised to be told £15 for the lot!
I’ve a horrible feeling that ‘The Hasselblad Way’ will only aggravate an itch I’ve had for a while to own such a thing…
Freelance Wastrel 