Jane BOWN: Orson Welles

Jane Bown: Orson Welles, 1951

"The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light." - Jane Bown


Jane Bown (The Guardian)
Jane Bown (The Guardian)
Jane Bown (Wikipedia)
Jane Bown (BBC)
Jane Bown (Top Foto)
Jane Bown (The Online Photographer)
Jane Bown (DPTips)

Michael CHILDERS: David Hockney At Rising Glen

Michael Childers: David Hockney At Rising Glen, 1978

Michael Childers
Michael Childers (The Free Library)

Leonard BASKIN: William Blake

Leonard Baskin: William Blake, 1962

»Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.« - Leonard Baskin

»The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.« - Leonard Baskin

»I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.« - Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin (YouTube)
Leonard Baskin (Wikipedia)
Leonard Baskin (ArtCyclopedia)

William GEDNEY: Little Boy

William Gedney: Little Boy Taking A Bite Of Food At The Table, Leatherwood, Kentucky, 1972

William Gedney (Wikipedia)
William Gedney (Duke University)

Roger BALLEN: Portrait Of Sleeping Girl

Roger Ballen: Portrait Of Sleeping Girl, 1999

Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen (Vimeo)
Roger Ballen (Wikipedia)
Roger Ballen (Lens Culture)
Roger Ballen (Photography Now)

Stanley SPENCER: Self Portrait with Patricia Preece

Stanley Spencer: Self Portrait with Patricia Preece, 1937

Stanley Spencer
Stanley Spencer (Wikipedia)
Stanley Spencer (ArtCyclopedia)
Stanley Spencer (The Guardian)
Stanley Spencer (YouTube)

Albert ANKER: Girl Peeling Potatoes

Anker Albert: Girl Peeling Potatoes

Albert Anker
Albert Anker (Wikipedia)
Albert Anker (YouTube)

Chuck CLOSE: Self-Portrait

Chuck Close: Self-Portrait, 2000

Chuck Close
Chuck Close (YouTube)
Chuck Close
Chuck Close (Wikipedia)

Elke HESSER: Nina

Elke Hesser: Nina, Paris, 1989

Elke Hesser

Lorenzo AGIUS: Thora Birch

Lorenzo Agius: Thora Birch

Lorenzo Agius
Lorenzo Agius (Canon)
Lorenzo Agius (The Independent)
Lorenzo Agius (Big Picture)
Lorenzo Agius (The Telegraph)

Thora Birch

Mili GJON: Pablo Picasso Draws A Centaur

Mili Gjon: Pablo Picasso Draws A Centaur, 1949

Mili Gjon (YouTube)
Mili Gjon (Life)
Mili Gjon (Wikipedia)
Mili Gjon (Obvious)
Mili Gjon (Kosova Art Gallery)
Mili Gjon (DPreview)

Albert WATSON: Sinead O'Connor

Albert Watson: Sinead O'Connor, 1992

Albert Watson
Albert Watson (YouTube)
Albert Watson (Wikipedia)
Albert Watson (Photo Icon)
Albert Watson (Vimeo)
Albert Watson (Photo Slaves)

Stanley KUBRICK: Self-Portrait

Stanley Kubrick: Self-Portrait, 1949

»Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.« - Stanley Kubrick

»I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.« - Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (IMDb)
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Stanley Kubrick (Kubrick Films)
Stanley Kubrick

Jenny SAVILLE: Self-Portrait

Jenny Saville: Self-Portrait

Jenny Saville (YouTube)
Jenny Saville (Gagosian Gallery)
Jenny Saville (Brain Juice)
Jenny Saville (Saatchi Gallery)
Jenny Saville (Wikipedia)

Nigel PARRY: Jenny Saville

Nigel Parry: Jenny Saville

Nigel Parry
Nigel Parry (Hasselblad)
Nigel Parry (Wikipedia)
Nigel Parry (Photographers Limited Editions)

Jenny Saville (YouTube)
Jenny Saville (Wikipedia)

John DEAKIN: Francis Bacon

John Deakin: Francis Bacon, 1952

John Deakin (Wikipedia)
John Deakin (The Independent)

Jen DAVIS: Self-Portrait

Jen Davis: Self-Portrait, (2002-)2010

Jen Davis
Jen Davis (Woman in Photography)

Leo FUCHS: Shirley MacLaine With Her Daughter Sachi

Leo Fuchs: Shirley MacLaine With Her Daughter Sachi While Visiting Paris, 1962

Leo Fuchs
Leo Fuchs
Leo Fuchs (Wikipedia)

Edmund KESTING: Self-Portrait As A Painter

Edmund Kesting: Self-Portrait As Painter, 1930

Edmund Kesting (Luminous Lint)
Edmund Kesting (YouTube)
Edmund Kesting (Wikipedia - auf deutsch)

Willem DE KOONING: Woman V

Willem De Kooning: Woman V 1952/53

"I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art." - Willem de Kooning

"In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble. - Willem de Kooning

Willem De Kooning (Wikipedia)
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Willem De Kooning (The Guardian)
Willem De Kooning
Willem De Kooning (Jessie Evans)

Raeanne RUBENSTEIN: Paul Simon

Raeanne Rubenstein: Paul Simon, 1980

Raeanne Rubenstein

Dora MAAR: Paul and Nusch Eluard

Dora Maar: Paul and Nusch Eluard, 1937

Dora Maar (YouTube)
Dora Maar (ArtCyclopedia)
Dora Maar (The New York Times)
Dora Maar (Wikipedia)
Dora Maar (The New York Art World)
Dora Maar (YouTube)

Paul Eluard (Poets.org)

Nusch Eluard (The Guardian)

William CLAXTON: Donald Byrd

William Claxton: Donald Byrd on the “A” Train, New York City, 1959

William Claxton
William Claxton (The New York Times)
William Claxton (All About Jazz)
William Claxton (Wikipedia)
William Claxton (YouTube)

Donald Byrd (YouTube)
Donald Byrd (Wikipedia)

Georgi PETRUSOV: Portrait of Aleksandr Rodchenko, 1933

Georgi Petrusov: Portrait of Aleksandr Rodchenko, 1933

Georgi Petrusov (Luminous Lint)

Aleksandr Rodchenko (MoMA)
Aleksandr Rodchenko (Profotos.com)
Aleksandr Rodchenko (Masters Of Photography)
Aleksandr Rodchenko (Wikipedia)
Aleksandr Rodchenko (CLR)

Billy NAME: Edie Sedgwick

Billy Name: Edie Sedgwick, 1965

Billy Name (Wikipedia)
Billy Name (Interview Magazine)
Billy Name

Edie Sedgwick (YouTube)
Edie Sedgwick (Warhol Stars)
Edie Sedgwick (Wikipedia)

Gerard UFERAS: Gilles Deleuze

Gerard Uferas: Gilles Deleuze

Gerard Uferas
Gerard Uferas

Gilles Deleuze

Martin SCHOELLER: Christopher Walken

Martin Schoeller: Christopher Walken

Martin Schoeller (Wikipedia)
Martin Schoeller (Strobist)
Martin Schoeller (The New Yorker)
Martin Schoeller (Time)
Martin Schoeller

Lord SNOWDON: Agatha Christie

Lord Snowdon: Agatha Christie, 1974

»I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up the fish and chucked away.« - Lord Snowdon


»A telephoto lens is all right for animals or sport but too intrusive for people who are unaware. If you want a close-up view you should move yourself if it is possible. The trouble is that so many photographers seem afraid to move in.« - Lord Snowdon

Lord Snowdon (YouTube)
Lord Snowdon (The Telegraph)
Lord Snowdon (Wikipedia)

Agatha Christie

Gary GROSS: Brooke Shields

Gary Gross: Brooke Shields, 1975

Gary Gross (Wikipedia)
Gary Gross (dogs)
Gary Gross (Huffington Post)

Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields (IMDb)

John LENNON: Self-Portrait

John Lennon: Self-Portrait

John Lennon
John Lennon (YouTube)

Jorge Luis BORGES: Self-Portrait

Jorge Luis Borges: Self-Portrait

»I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.« Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges (Wikipedia)
Jorge Luis Borges (YouTube)

Ronald HAEBERLE: People about to be shot

Ronald Haeberle: People about to be shot, My Lai, Vietnam, March 16th 1968

»The emotional power of the photograph derives from our knowledge that it was taken during the last seconds these people were alive, as they realize they are about to be killed. They were surrounded by bodies and burning houses, and they could not have missed the sounds of gunfire and screaming. They must have understood the G.I.’s meant to shoot them also. Few photographs show people contemplating their imminent, violent death as vividly as this one.« - Claude Cookman

Ronald Haeberle (Wikipedia)
Ronald Haeberle (Common Dreams)
Ronald Haeberle (Cleveland.com)

My Ali (Wikipedia)
My Lai (The Journal of Amercan History)
My Lai (YouTube)

John LOENGARD: Allen Ginsberg

John Loengard: Allen Ginsberg, 1966

"When I teach a class I often give the assignment: "Photograph someone you love." I ask people to do this so they have a subject about whom they have feelings, a subject that is more than a model, or an object, or a shape, or an idea. In this way, they can judge the result not only by its technical success, but also by how well it describes their feelings." John Loengard


"A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it." - John Loengard


John Loengard

Allen Ginsberg (Wikipedia)

Jacob JORDAENS: Self-portrait with Parents, Brothers and Sisters

Jacob Jordaens: Self-portrait with Parents, Brothers and Sisters, 1615

Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens (Rijksmuseum)
Jacob Jordaens (Wikipedia)
Jacob Jordaens (Getty)

Gustaw GWOZDECKI: Kiki De Montparnasse

Gustaw Gwozdecki: Kiki De Montparnasse, 1920

Gustaw Gwozdecki (Culture.pl)

Kiki De Montparnasse (Wikipedia)
Kiki De Montparnasse (The Guardian)

David SEIDNER: Paloma Picasso

David Seidner: Paloma Picasso, 1987

David Seidner
David Seidner (Wikipedia)
David Seidner (The Independent)
David Seidner (The New York Times)

Paloma Picasso (Wikipedia)

John SINGER SARGENT: Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882

John Singer Sargent: Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882

John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent (Wikipedia)
John Singer Sargent (JSS Gallery)
John Singer Sargent (YouTube)
John Singer Sargent (YouTube)
John Singer Sargent (Ibiblio)

Herman LEONARD: Duke Ellington

Herman Leonard: Duke Ellington, Paris, 1958

Herman Leonard
Herman Leonard (BBC)
Herman Leonard (YouTube)
Herman Leonard (The Telegraph)
Herman Leonard (The New York Times)
Herman Leonard (Wikipedia)

Antanas SUTKUS: Jean Paul Sartre

Antanas Sutkus: Jean Paul Sartre, 1965

Antanas Sutkus (Wikipedia)
Antanas Sutkus (La Lettre de la Photographie)
Antanas Sutkus (The Telegraph)
Antanas Sutkus (YouTube)
Antanas Sutkus (Photographie)

Jean Paul Sartre (Wikipedia)
Jean Paul Sartre

Vladmir TATLIN: Self-Portrait

Vladmir Tatlin: Self-Portrait, 1911

Vladmir Tatlin (Wikipedia)
Vladmir Tatlin (YouTube)
Vladmir Tatlin (Artcyclopedia)
Vladmir Tatlin (Great Bulidings)

Kazimir MALEVICH: Selfportrait

Kazimir Malevich: Selfportrait, 1933

Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Malevich (YouTube)
Kazimir Malevich (Guggenheim)
Kazimir Malevich (Wikipedia)
Kazimir Malevich (Malevich Society)

Gustave COURBET: The Desperate Man, self-portrait

Gustave Courbet: The Desperate Man, self-portrait, c. 1845

"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves." - Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (YouTube)
Gustave Courbet (Wikipedia)

Erwin BLUMENFELD: Hitler

Erwin Blumenfeld: Hitler, 1933

"Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies" - Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld (WeimarArt)
Erwin Blumenfeld (YouTube)
Erwin Blumenfeld (Show Studio)
Erwin Blumenfeld (Wikipedia)

Toni FRISSELL: Boy sitting in the rubble of his home where his parents lie buried after a V-2 bomb hit

Toni Frissell: Boy sitting in the rubble of his home where his parents lie buried after a V-2 bomb hit, London, January 1945

“I was told he had come back from playing and found his house a shambles—his mother, father and brother dead under the rubble…he was looking up at the sky, his face an expression of both confusion and defiance. The defiance made him look like a young Winston Churchill. This photograph was used by IBM to publicize a show in London. The boy grew up to become a truck driver after the war, and walking past the IBM offices, he recognized his picture.” Toni Frissell: Photographs 1933-1967

Toni Frissell (The New York Times)
Toni Frissell (Staleywise)
Toni Frissell (Loc.gov)
Toni Frissell (Wikipedia)

Jan SAUDEK: Marie No. 142

Jan Saudek: Marie, No. 142, 1972

Jan Saudek
Jan Saudek (YouTube)
Jan Saudek (Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Jan Saudek (Wikipedia)
Jan Saudek (Prague.net)
Jan Saudek (Artnet)

Garry WINOGRAND: Woman Are Beautiful

Garry Winogrand: Untitled (series: Woman Are Beautiful)

"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed." - Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand (Profotos)
Garry Winogrand (Wikipedia)
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Garry Winogrand (Getty Museum)
Garry Winogrand (Masters Of Photography)
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Garry Winogrand (LA Lettre)
Garry Winogrand (American Suburb X)

Michael COMTE: Carla Bruni

Michael Comte: Carla Bruni

Michael Comte
Michael Comte (YouTube)

Horst P. HORST: Self Portrait with Gertrude Stein

Horst P. Horst: Self Portrait with Gertrude Stein (Carl Erickson Drawing Gertrude Stein and Horst), Paris, 1946

Horst P. Horst
Horst P. Horst (The Independent)
Horst P. Horst (The New York Times)
Horst P. Horst (YouTube)
Horst P. Horst (Wikipedia)

Gertrude Stein (Wikipedia)

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)

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)