On Photography: Man Ray, 1890-1976
Kevin Ames
“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred
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On Photography: Marie Hansen, 1918-1969
Kevin Ames
“A good news photographer, particularly in magazine work, must fill some rather awesome qualifications. He, or she, must have a reporter’s nose for news, a movie director’s sense of the
On Photography: Mario Testino, 1954-present
Kevin Ames
“I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like
On Photography: Weegee, 1899-1968
Kevin Ames
“To me, pictures are like blintzes — ya gotta get ’em while they’re hot.” -Weegee Weegee, the photographer Arthur Fellig’s pseudonym is the phonetic spelling of the Ouija board. He
On Photography: James Nachtwey, 1941-present
Kevin Ames
“I have been a witness and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.” -James Nachtwey James Nachtwey has
On Photography: Co Rentmeester, 1936-present
Kevin Ames
“For me, the single word that best sums him up as a photographer is ‘bold’ ” -Philip B. Kunhart, Jr., editor, Life magazine describing Co Rentmeester Jacobus “Co” Rentmeester was
On Photography: Ernest Haas, 1921-1986
Kevin Ames
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” – Ernst Haas Ernest Haas is considered
On Photography: Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012
Kevin Ames
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” -Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969 50 years ago, yesterday, human beings landed on another body in our solar system
On Photography: William Anders, 1933-present
Kevin Ames
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.” -William Anders On Christmas Eve in 2008, Apollo 8 was
On Photography: Francesco Scavullo, 1921-2004
Kevin Ames
“Something in my head gets turned on by seeing a woman’s looks really come together with the right makeup, the right hairstyle, the right clothes… it’s exciting to see a
On Photography: Wynn Bullock, 1902-1975
Kevin Ames
“Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.” -Wynn Bullock Wynn Bullock started out as a singer. He was a chorus member
On Photography: Dorothea Lange, 1895-1965
Kevin Ames
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.” -Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange trained to be a teacher when, in 1913, she decided to be a
On Photography: Philippe Halsman Jumpology
Kevin Ames
“When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.” -Philippe Halsman Sometimes,
On Photography: Greg Gorman, 1949-present
Kevin Ames
For me, a photograph is most successful when it doesn’t answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired. I like each picture that I take to be
On Photography: Bert Stern, 1929-2013
Kevin Ames
“There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability anymore.” -Bert Stern Bert Stern has been called
On Photography: Herb Ritts, 1952-2002
Kevin Ames
“Sometimes people have trouble with the context of why a picture is taken. Whether you take it for Vogue or for the GAP or for yourself matters little to me.
On Photography: Mona Kuhn, 1969-present (NSFW)
Kevin Ames
“The body is a place where our mind resides, and that’s what I’m photographing.” -Mona Kuhn Mona Kuhn makes fine art with her camera and often unclothed human beings. She
On Photography: Robert Capa, 1913-1954
Kevin Ames
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” -Robert Capa Robert Capa is accepted as the greatest war photographer during the first half of the twentieth century. Capa
On Photography: Robert Mapplethorpe, 1946-1989
Kevin Ames
“I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today’s existence.” -Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Mapplethorpe is one of my photographic heroes. His
On Photography: Elliott Erwitt, 1928- present
Kevin Ames
“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” -Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt is a keen observer of human humor. His photographs
On Photography: David Bailey, 1938-present
Kevin Ames
“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so