‘The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.’
Margaret Bourke-White (American documentary photographer) – June 14, 1904 – August 27 1971.
Tag: Photographer
Born on this day… George Hurrell
‘It’s all so simple – no one believes me… you strike a pose, then you light it. Then you clown around and get some action in the expressions. Then, you shoot.’
George Hurrell (American master of Hollywood glamour photography) – June 1, 1904 – May 17 1992.
Born on this day… Bert Hardy
‘Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.’
Bert Hardy (English documentary and press photographer) – May 19, 1913 – July 3 1995.
Born on this day… Suze Randall
‘I had the best gimmick in the business: A sexy girl taking pictures of sexy girls.’
Suze Randall (English model, photographer, and pornographer) – May 18, 1946 (age 72)
Born on this day – Richard Avedon
‘And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.’
Richard Avedon (American fashion and portrait photographer) – May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004.
Born on this day – Bill Brandt
‘Photography is not a sport. It has no rules.’
Bill Brandt (British photographer and photojournalist) – May 2, 1904 – December 20, 1983.
Born on this day – Lee Miller
‘The personality of the photographer, his approach, is really more important than his technical genius.’
Elizabeth “Lee” Miller (American fashion model, photographer and war correspondent) – April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977.
Born on this day – Eve Arnold
‘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.
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.
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