‘Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your picture’
Don McCullin (British photojournalist) – October 9, 1935 (age 83).
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Born on this day – Annie Leibovitz
‘When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you’re with someone, like you have a companion.’
Annie Leibovitz (American portrait photographer) – October 2, 1949 (age 69).
Born on this day – Alberto Korda
‘Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.’
Alberto Korda (Cuban photographer) – September 14, 1928 – May 25, 2001.
Born on this day – Brassaï
‘To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.’
Brassaï (Hungarian/French photographer) – September 9, 1899 – July 8, 1984.
Born on this Day… Galen Rowell
‘You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.’
Galen Rowell (wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and climber) – August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002.
Born on this Day… Horst P. Horst
‘I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.’
Horst P. Horst (German-American fashion photographer) – August 14, 1906 – November 18, 1999.
Born on this day… Elliott Erwitt
‘When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.’
Elliott Erwitt (American advertising and documentary photographer) – July 26, 1928 (age 90).
Born on this Day… André Kertész
‘I do what I feel, that’s all, I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That’s all I’ve ever done.’
André Kertész (Hungarian-born photographer) – July 2, 1894 – September 28, 1985.
Born on this day… Bob Carlos Clarke
‘The big problem for photography is the machine called ‘Camera’. Billions of snaps are churned out, most worth less than the chemicals and paper that created them. This relatively new and brilliant invention has been brutalised by the fumbling fingers and unfocused eyes of the ordinary man. Politicans, pathologists, parents, paparazzi – everyone’s a photographer.
And now photography lies bleeding at the feet of Art, and won’t get up until 67 billion ‘ordinary users’ are rounded up and stripped of their accessories.’
Bob Carlos Clarke (British documentary, portrait and fetish photographer) – June 24, 1950 – March 25, 2006.
Born on this day… Irving Penn
‘Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.’
Irving Penn (American fashion and portrait photographer) – June 16, 1917 – October 7 2009.
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