Chris Marker
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1921, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, d. 2012, Paris.]
And always the animalsfrom each trip
you bring back
a gaze
a pose
a gesture
that points
to the truest of humanity
better
than images
of humanity itself
Douglas Huebler
[Photographer and artist, b. 1924, Ann Arbor, Michigan, d. 1997, Truro, Massachusetts.]
Throughout the artist’s lifetime he will photographically document, to the extent of his capacity, the existence of everyone alive.
(Proposal) Mario Giacomelli
[Photographer, b. 1925, Senigallia, Italy, d. 2000, Senigallia.]
A photo isn’t only what you see, but also what your imagination adds to it. My own imagination may add something else, a third person’s something else again. But does it matter? What matters is the contact between us, the fact that we talk about trees losing their leaves, about objects we crush underfoot without realizing it, about that house dying gently, abandoned by its owner, even though it’s the house where he was born, where he learnt to cry and to laugh. Peter Turnley
[Photographer, b. 1955, Fort Wayne, Indiana, lives in New York and Paris.]
The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself. Cornell Capa (Kornél Friedmann)
[Writer and photographer, b. 1918, Budapest, Hungary, d. 2008, New York.]
When you look at my work, you will notice the absence of still lifes and landscapes. I am interested in human beings, their lives, their habitats, their behavior, and their relationships, familial and beyond. Jerome Liebling
[Photographer, b. 1924, New York, d. 2011, Northampton, Massachusetts.]
My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography. Paul Outerbridge
[Photographer, b. 1896, New York, d. 1958, Laguna Beach, California.]
If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway. Diane Arbus
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 1971, New York.]
I remember a long time ago when I first began to photograph I thought, there are an awful lot of people in the world and it’s going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them, so if I photograph some kind of generalized human being, everybody’ll recognize it. It’ll be like what they used to call the common man or something. It was my teacher, Lisette Model, who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it’ll be.