‘Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.’
Alfred Stieglitz (American photographer and modern art promoter) – January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946.
Category: Quotation
Born on this day – Man Ray
‘“I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.’
Man Ray (American visual artist) – August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976.
Born on this day – Henri Cartier-Bresson
‘Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.’
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French photographer) – August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004.
Born on this day – Willy Ronis
‘Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.’
Willy Ronis (French photographer) – August 14, 1910 – September 12, 2009.
Born on this day… Jane Bown
‘The best pictures are uninvited. They are suddenly there in front of you. But they are there one minute and gone the next.’
Jane Bown (English photographer) – March 13, 1925 – December 21, 2014.
Born on this day – Ernst Haas
‘My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.’
Ernst Haas (Austrian photojournalist and pioneering colour photographer) – March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986.
Born on this day – Ansel Adams
‘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.
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.
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