‘The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they’ve gone.’
Yousuf Karsh (Armenian-Canadian photographer) – December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002
Tag: Photographer
Born on this day – Bettina Rheims
‘I think that I first started to shoot naked women because I wanted my father to look at my images and father liked very pretty women.’
Bettina Rheims (French photographer) – December 18, 1952 (age 65)
Born on this day – O. Winston Link
‘I never expected that. I didn’t aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.’
O. Winston Link (American photographer best known for his photographs of the Norfolk & Western Railroad) – December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001.
Born on this day – Alfred Eisenstaedt
‘It’s more important to click with people than to click the shutter.’
Alfred Eisenstaedt (German-born American photographer and photojournalist) – December 6, 1898 – August 23, 1995.
Born on this day – Simon Marsden
‘I remain firmly convinced that a hidden, very different ‘spirit world’ runs parallel to our own so-called ‘reality’, and that this other secret existence, which lies concealed behind material appearances, can be revealed to any one of us if the conditions are right and we allow ourselves to be receptive to it by conquering our innermost fears of the unknown.’
Simon Marsden (Sir Simon Neville Llewelyn Marsden, 4th Baronet (English photographer, author and ghosthunter) – December 1, 1948 – January 22, 2012.
Born on this day – Jeanloup Sieff
‘There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.’
Jeanloup Sieff (French photographer) – November 30, 1933 – September 20, 2000.
Born on this day… Bryan Adams
‘Everything I do, I do it for you’
(Sorry… I couldn’t resist that! Serious quotation below…)
‘I think I’m better behind the camera than I am in front.’
Bryan Adams (Canadian singer/songwriter & photographer) – November 5, 1959 (age 58).
Born on this day – Helmut Newton
‘My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.’
Helmut Newton (German-Australian photographer) – October 31, 1920 – January 23, 2004.
Born on this day – Robert Capa
‘If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.’
Robert Capa (Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist) – October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954.
Born on this day – Paul Strand
‘No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.’
Paul Strand (American photographer and filmmaker) – October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976.
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