“Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.” -Michael Kenna Michael Kenna says he could happily be a photographer with no film in his camera. His travels over
“Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.” – David duChemin David duChemin photographs the souls of his subjects.
“That you can be two hours early, but you can’t be a 60th-of-a-second late. In other words, if you’re not there when it happens, you can’t take a picture of it.” -Richard Drew 20 years ago today, Associated Press photographer
“Black is beautiful.” -popularized by Kwame Braithwaite Kwame Brathwaite, dressed in a three-piece suit, came to MoMA PS1 in Queens, NY for his first photography assignment in over 20 years. He was to make portraits of the artist Joanne Petit-Frère
“With the pragmatic brilliance of a Renaissance master, Hiro has changed the way photographs look, and with an endlessly inventive technique has changed the way photographers work.” -The American Photographer The iconic photographer of fashion and still life with a
“Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.” -Gjon Mili Gjon Mili was one of the first photographers to use electronic flash to light a picture and to stop motion. MIT engineer Gjon
“There’s nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It’s you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you’ve said it.” -David Douglas Duncan War photographer’s gear bag David Douglas Duncan kept his
“I feel I have brought back a classical style to the world of black and white art photography. I believe in beautiful things and I feel through my art I am capturing beauty in my camera lens.” -George Forss $4
“I never claimed to be a great photographer, and even at this point I don’t.” -Chuck Rogers One Friday morning, I was having coffee with Chuck Rogers at Einstein’s on North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta, GA. Chuck was showing
“In art, I think that you’re pushed and pulled in a direction. And being a Black artist, especially a black photographer, a lot of my decisions were based upon survival.” -Lou Jones Lou Jones has been a successful photographer for
“It all started on the planet Uranus, and then I came to Earth — and man, that was difficult …” – Meredith Ochoa Ok. So Meredith Ochoa did not really start on the planet Uranus unless you consider that she
Kathy Willens specialized in sports photography. After 45 years of making images of the Olympics, Super Bowls and baseball she is retiring from The Associated Press. Lab tech Kathy Willens began her long-running career in photography covering sports as a
“That you can be two hours early, but you can’t be a 60th-of-a-second late. In other words, if you’re not there when it happens, you can’t take a picture of it.” -Richard Drew 20 years ago today, Associated Press photographer
“Black is beautiful.” -popularized by Kwame Braithwaite Kwame Brathwaite, dressed in a three-piece suit, came to MoMA PS1 in Queens, NY for his first photography assignment in over 20 years. He was to make portraits of the artist Joanne Petit-Frère
“With the pragmatic brilliance of a Renaissance master, Hiro has changed the way photographs look, and with an endlessly inventive technique has changed the way photographers work.” -The American Photographer The iconic photographer of fashion and still life with a
“Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.” -Gjon Mili Gjon Mili was one of the first photographers to use electronic flash to light a picture and to stop motion. MIT engineer Gjon
“There’s nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It’s you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you’ve said it.” -David Douglas Duncan War photographer’s gear bag David Douglas Duncan kept his
“I feel I have brought back a classical style to the world of black and white art photography. I believe in beautiful things and I feel through my art I am capturing beauty in my camera lens.” -George Forss $4
“I never claimed to be a great photographer, and even at this point I don’t.” -Chuck Rogers One Friday morning, I was having coffee with Chuck Rogers at Einstein’s on North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta, GA. Chuck was showing
“In art, I think that you’re pushed and pulled in a direction. And being a Black artist, especially a black photographer, a lot of my decisions were based upon survival.” -Lou Jones Lou Jones has been a successful photographer for
“It all started on the planet Uranus, and then I came to Earth — and man, that was difficult …” – Meredith Ochoa Ok. So Meredith Ochoa did not really start on the planet Uranus unless you consider that she
Kathy Willens specialized in sports photography. After 45 years of making images of the Olympics, Super Bowls and baseball she is retiring from The Associated Press. Lab tech Kathy Willens began her long-running career in photography covering sports as a
“We have a saying in Russia: If there hadn’t been an unhappy incident there never would be a happy one!” — Anne Noggle In the history of photography, Anne Noggle (1922–2005) stands alone among the great American photographers for her powerful,
“I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living … My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, ‘Let’s see
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