sreda, 20. april 2011

petek, 15. april 2011

Hiroshi HAMAYA: Rickshaw Driver


Hiroshi Hamaya: Rickshaw Driver; Ginza, Tokyo, 1938

"I have gained some new insights into Man through having looked deeply at Nature." - Hiroshi Hamaya

Hiroshi Hamaya (Hasselblad Foundation)
Hiroshi Hamaya (Photography Now)
Hiroshi Hamaya (Wikipedia)

četrtek, 14. april 2011

Robert FRANK: Elevator Girl


Robert Frank: Elevator Girl (Elevator - Miami Beach, 1955), 1955

"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished." - Robert Frank

"Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand, he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world". - Jack Kerouac

Robert Frank (YouTube)
Robert Frank (Wikipedia)
Robert Frank (Atget Photography)
Robert Frank (Vanity Fair)
Robert Frank (npr)

Elevator Girl - Sharon Collins (npr)

torek, 12. april 2011

Berenice ABBOTT: Eugene Atget


Berenice Abbott: Eugene Atget

"There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own." - Berenice Abbott


"Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity." - Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott (The J. Paul Getty Museum)
Berenice Abbott (YouTube)
Berenice Abbott (Masters Of Photography)
Berenice Abbott (Wikipedia)
Berenice Abbott (Cosmopolis)

Eugene Atget (Wikipedia)

ponedeljek, 11. april 2011

Bill JAY: Manuel Alvarez Bravo


Bill Jay: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 1980

"If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. [...] Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm." - Bill Jay (in Lens Work)

Bill Jay
Bill Jay (YouTube)
Bill Jay (British Photographic History)
Bill Jay (The Guardian)
Bill Jay (Marketing Photos)

torek, 5. april 2011

Dennis STOCK: James Dean


Dennis Stock: James Dean, 1955

"For each new generation of teenagers, Dean offers sympathetic personas of youth struggling to carve out their identities. That's why his popularity goes on and on.” - Dennis Stock

Dennis Stock (Magnum Photos)
Dennis Stock (Time)
Dennis Stock (YouTube)
Dennis Stock (The Guardian)
Dennis Stock (The New York Times)
Dennis Stock (Wikipedia)

ponedeljek, 4. april 2011

Cecil BEATON: Queen Elizabeth - coronation portrait


Cecil Beaton: Queen Elizabeth - coronation portrait

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton (Wikipedia)
Cecil Beaton (Staley Wise)
Cecil Beaton (The Independent)
Cecil Beaton (The Telegraph)
Cecil Beaton (YouTube)

nedelja, 3. april 2011

Alberto KORDA: Che Guevarra


Alberto Korda : Che Guevarra

"Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture." - Alberto Korda

Alberto Korda (The Telegraph)
Alberto Korda (Wikipedia)
Alberto Korda (YouTube)
Alberto Korda (BBC)
Alberto Korda (YouTube)
Alberto Korda (Art History Archive)
Alberto Korda (Artscenecal)

sobota, 2. april 2011

Arnold NEWMAN: Ieoh Ming Pei


Arnold Newman: Ieoh Ming Pei, 1967

"I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself." - Arnold Newman


"The photographer must be a part of the picture." - Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman (New York Times)
Arnold Newman (Arnold Newman Archive)
Arnold Newman (YouTube)
Arnold Newman (Wikipedia)

I. M. Pei (Pei Cobb Freed & Partners)
I. M. Pei (YouTube)
I. M. Pei (Wikipedia)

petek, 1. april 2011

Marc CHAGALL: Lovers In Green


Marc Chagall: Lovers In Green, 1917

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." - Marc Chagall


"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites." - Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall (Wikipedia)
Marc Chagall (Guggenheim)
Marc Chagall (Daily Motion)
Marc Chagall (YouTube)
Marc Chagall (ArtCyclopedia)
Marc Chagall (Marc Chagall Paitnings)