‘Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you’d never paid attention to.’
Saul Leiter (American photographer and painter) – December 3, 1923 – November 26, 2013.
Tag: Photographer
Born on this day – Jeanloup Sieff
‘I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defence against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.’
Jeanloup Sieff (French photographer) – November 30, 1933 – September 20, 2000.
Born on this day – Robert Capa
‘For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.’
Robert Capa (Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist) – October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954.
Born on this day – Brassaï
‘Do you know what Picasso said when he looked at my drawings in 1939? “You’re crazy, Brassai. You have a gold mine and you spend your time exploiting a salt mine!” The salt mine was – naturally – photography!’
Brassaï (Hungarian/French photographer) – September 9, 1899 – July 8, 1984.
Born on this day – Man Ray
‘I believe in the relation between photography and music; And that’s my inspiration.’
Man Ray (American visual artist) – August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976.
Born on this day – Henri Cartier-Bresson
‘It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head.’
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French photographer) – August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004.
Born on this day – Willy Ronis
‘I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.’
Willy Ronis (French photographer) – August 14, 1910 – September 12, 2009.
Born on this day… Terry O’Neill
‘You know what always amazed me? That none of the beautiful women I’ve photographed ever thought they were beautiful. Ava (Gardner) didn’t. Marilyn (Monroe) didn’t. Michelle Pfeiffer doesn’t. Such a waste.’
Terry O’Neill (English photographer) – July 30, 1938 (age 81).
Born on this day… Elliott Erwitt
‘The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe, I try to entertain, but above all, I want pictures that are emotional.’
Elliott Erwitt (American advertising and documentary photographer) – July 26, 1928 (age 91).
Born on this day… Margaret Bourke-White
‘If anyone gets in my way when I’m making a picture, I become irrational. I’m never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do, only that I want that picture’
Margaret Bourke-White (American documentary photographer) – June 14, 1904 – August 27 1971.
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