On Photography: Li Zhensheng, 1940-2020
Kevin Ames
“No one asked me to take close-ups of the bodies, but that’s what I did. I had to get very close, so close I could smell the fishy smell of
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On Photography: George Hoyningen-Huene, 1900-1968
Kevin Ames
“These photographs would never please the architects, who want blueprints, but I wanted to interpret ancient buildings and ancient sites, and glamorize them, just as I had done with beautiful
On Photography: Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, Lady Penrose, 1907-1977
Kevin Ames
“It seems to me that women have a bigger chance at success in photography than men … Women are quicker and more adaptable than men. And I think they have
On Photography: Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Kevin Ames
“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” –Berenice Abbott Berenice Abbott & sculpture Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, OH. In her
On Photography: Peter Lindbergh, 1944-2019
Kevin Ames
“If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to
On Photography: Astrid Kirchherr, 1938-2020
Kevin Ames
“It was like a merry-go-round in my head, they looked absolutely astonishing … My whole life changed in a couple of minutes. All I wanted was to be with them
On Photography: David (Chim) Seymour, 1911-1956
Kevin Ames
“‘All you need,’ David Seymour who is also known as Chim, once said as a noted photographer orated on the psychology behind one of his pictures, ‘is a little bit
On Photography: Sebasitão Salgado, 1944-present
Kevin Ames
“When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn’t young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I’d ever met. He told me it
On Photography: Dorothea Lange exhibition online from MoMA
Kevin Ames
“All photographs — not only those that are so-called ‘documentary’ … can be fortified by words.” -Dorothea Lange On Photography has already profiled Dorothea Lange and her photography. This special
On Photography: Peter Beard, 1938-2020
Kevin Ames
“I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother’s mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn’t let her. Eventually, she won, and I got a camera
On Photography: George Steinmetz, 1957-present
Kevin Ames
“I learned to fly just for this project, what I love to do as a photographer is to show people things that they haven’t really seen before. And these desert
On Photography: Vicktor Skrebneski, 1929-2020
Kevin Ames
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. –Victor Skrebneski Chicago’s photographer He became interested in photography when he found a camera in a park. Seven-year
On Photography: John Sexton, 1953-present
Kevin Ames
“A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good.
On Photography: Kenny Rogers, 1938-2020
Kevin Ames
“Well, I don’t think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.”
On Photography: André Kertész, 1894-1985
Kevin Ames
“Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.” –Andre Kertesz Europe It was 1912. André Kertész bought his first camera. He was 18 years old and working
On Photography: Brassaï, 1899-1984
Kevin Ames
“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbs and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.”
On Photography: Martin Parr, 1952-present
Kevin Ames
“I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, ‘What relationship has it with what’s going on?’ I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life.
On Photography: Robert Doisneau, 1912-1994
Kevin Ames
“If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time.” ―Robert Doisneau Photojournalism pioneer Robert Doisneau was a popular reportage photographer in France. His abundant work
On Photography: Cindy Sherman, 1954-present
Kevin Ames
“The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.” – Cindy Sherman The photographer is the subject Cindy Sherman is not
On Photography: Joel Grimes, 1957-present
Kevin Ames
“No technical process or technique can create an artistic expression; this is reserved for the creative mind.” -Joel Grimes Artist, photographer Joel Grimes is a world-class commercial photographer with clients
On Photography: Mary Ellen Mark, 1940-2015
Kevin Ames
“I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.”