" In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers.my style is the style of people I photograph " - Lotte Jacobi Johanna Alexandra "Lotte" Jacobi was a German-American photographer noted for her portraits of famous figures. Born in 1896 into a family of photographers, Jacobi studied art history and literature [...]
" It seems to me that women have a bigger chance at success in Photography than men... Women are quicker and more adaptable than men. And I think they have an intuition that helps them understand personalities more quickly than men." - Lee Miller Elizabeth "Lee" Miller was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her father,Theodore [...]
Today is my birthday so I thought I would share a photographer from the African continent. Keïta was born in 1921 in Bamako, Mali, although the exact date is unknown. He was the oldest in a family of five children. Keïta developed an interest in photography when his uncle gave him a Kodak Brownie with a film with eight [...]
" I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves. The portrait is your mirror. It's you " - August Sander August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer born in Herdorf in 1876. Described as one of the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century, August Sander was [...]
"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 was a American-German photographer best known for his editorial photographs, experimental [...]
Thérèse Bonney was an American photographer and publicist born in Syracuse, New York, 1894. Bonney grew up in New York and California and graduated from the University of California, took a master’s degree in Romance languages at Harvard University, and, after a short time at Columbia University in New York City, completed her doctorate of [...]
" Making a photograph is a difficult as finding a particularly frisky cat in a dark room. Asking a great photograph is as chancy as trying to catch a frisky cat in a black room in which there is no cat " - Bill Jay Amongst many other talents such as photography, Bill Jay was [...]
