Jack Kerouac (Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac)
[Writer, b. 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts, d. 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida.]
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days...
Diane Arbus
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 1971, New York.]
Lately I’ve been struck with how I really love what you can’t see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it’s very thrilling for me to see darkness again.
Ruth Bernhard
[Photographer, b. 1905, Berlin, d. 2006, San Francisco.]
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.
Saul Leiter
[Photographer, b. 1923, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 2013, New York.]
Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
[Photographer, b. 1948, Tokyo, lives in New York.]
I live in the shadow... I like shadow, that’s why I became a black and white photographer.
Roland Barthes
[Writer, critic, and theorist, b. 1915, Cherbourg, d. 1980, Paris.]
A sort of umbilical cord links the body of the photographed thing to my gaze: light, though impalpable, is a carnal medium, a skin I share with anyone who has been photographed.
Edouard Boubat
[Photographer, b. 1923, Paris, France, d. 1999, Paris.]
Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new—it is something that never wears out.
Bill Jay
[Photographer, writer, and curator, b. 1940, Maidenhead, England, d. 2009, Samara, Costa Rica.]
Evolution in action: First, God said, ‘Let there be light.’ Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.
