" The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is Photography: Light. Light is our paint brush and it is most willing tool in the hands of one who studies it with sufficient care " - Laura Gilpin Laura Gilpin was an American photographer born in 1891. She is well known for [...]
" Often my best photographs are the ones I didn't take" - Mariana Yampolsky Marianna Yampolsky was one of the major figure of Mexican photography in the 20th Century. Born in Chicago, Mariana Yampolsky emigrated to Mexico in the 1940’s and became a Mexican citizen in 1954. She participated in the Taller de Gráfica Popular, [...]
" It doesn't matter if you take a great picture if no one knows what it's about " - Carl Mydans Carl Mydans was an American photographer born in 1907. Born and raised in Boston, he earned a B.S. degree from the Boston University school of Journalism in 1930. Mydans's career as a journalist began [...]
"Photography is demonstrably the most contemporary of art forms; it is the most vital, effective and universal means of communication of facts and ideas between peoples and nations. " - Cornell Capa Cornell Capa was born Cornell Friedmann was a photographer, member of Magnum Photos, photo curator and the younger brother of the photo-journalist and [...]
Born in Budapest, Besnyö was brought up in a well-to-do Jewish home to father Bela Blumengrund and mother Ilona Kelemen. Her father was a lawyer who changed his name to a Hungarian sounding one in order to get ahead. She grew up fluent in Hungarian and German. In 1928, instead of attending university like her [...]
" A garbage can, occasionally, to me at least, can be beautiful. That's because you're seeing. Some people are able to see that - see it and feel it. I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject' - Walker Evans Those are the words that intrigued enough to so some [...]
"Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest" - Lisette Model Lisette Model was born in Vienna, where she studied piano and compositional theory with Arnold Schönberg before moving to Paris. She discontinued her musical career in 1933, and discovered photography through her sister Olga and her friend Rogi André, André Kertész's [...]
