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"Pea in a Pod" - ©Anne Geddes

“The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image” – Anne Geddes

AnneGeddes.com

"Che Guevara" - ©RENÉ BURRI

“One of these days, I’m going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit.” – RENÉ BURRI

René Burri Photographs

"Kate Moss" - © Irving Penn

“I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel” – Irving Penn

Washington Post Tribute – Irving Penn Dead at 92

Susan Sontag 1962

“Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they can not deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.” – Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Foundation

"The Damm Family in their Car, Los Angles, California 1987" - ©Mary Ellen Mark

“Everyone asks me how I get my subjects to open up to me. There’s no formula to it. It’s just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people – of being yourself. Your subjects will trust you only if you’re confident about what you’re doing. They can sense that immediately. I’m really bothered by photographers who first approach a subject without a camera, try to establish a personal realationship, and only then get out their cameras. It’s deceptive. I think you should just show up with a camera, to make your intentions clear. People will either accept you or they won’t. – Mary Ellen Mark – “American Photo”, September/October 1998

MaryEllenMark.com

Spreads from "Portfolio #1" by Alexey Brodovitch, 1950

“When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.” – Alexey Brodovitch – Photography, February 1964 [cited in: Creative Camera February 1972, p. 472]

Alexey Brodovitch on Wilkipedia

Bricklayer - August Sander

“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.” – August Sander

Portfolio of 29 Photographs

"Central Park, 1992" - Lee Friedlander

“I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.” – Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander Links

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” – Diane Arbus

Portfolio of 28 Photographs

Link to movie “Fur”

Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow - David LaChapelle

“People say photographs do not lie, mine do” – David Lachapelle

LaChapelle Studio