" 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 [...]
" 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 [...]
" 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 [...]
" 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 [...]
