‘It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.’
Eve Arnold (American photojournalist) – April 21, 1912 – January 4, 2012.
Category: Quotation
Born on this day – Robert Doisneau
‘The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.’
Robert Doisneau (French photographer) – April 14, 1912 – April 1, 1994.
Born on this day – Martine Franck
‘Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.’
Martine Franck (Belgian documentary and portrait photographer, co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation) – April 2, 1938 – August 16, 2012.
Born on this day – Leonard Nimoy
‘Live long and prosper 🖖’
(I couldn’t resist that! Photography-related quotation below…)
‘Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.’
Leonard Simon Nimoy (American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter) – March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015.
Born on this day – Mary Ellen Mark
‘Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality.’
Mary Ellen Mark (American photographer) – March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015.
Born on this day – Bunny Yeager
‘Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.’
Linnea Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager (American photographer and pin-up model) – March 13, 1926 – May 25, 2014.
Born on this day – Roye
‘I always knew someone would one day hold an exhibition of my work, but I assumed it would be a posthumous one.’
Horace Roye-Narbeth (British photographer) – March 4, 1906 – June 11, 2002.
Born on this day – Ernst Haas
‘The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.’
Ernst Haas (Austrian photojournalist and pioneering colour photographer) – March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986.
Born on this day – Ansel Adams
‘It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.’
Ansel Easton Adams (American photographer and environmentalist) – February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984.
Born on this day – Fay Godwin
‘I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.’
Fay Godwin (British landscape photographer) – February 17, 1931 – May 27, 2005.
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