A Young Man in Curlers at Home on West 20th Street (N.Y.C. 1966) Arbus uses a strong flash to create a high-contrast photograph in “A Young Man in Curlers at Home on West 20th Street,” which is representative of the strong, conflicting ideologies of Americans in the 1960s. The man’s face is stark white compared […]
“This is what we did. How did it happen? How could we?” – Dorothea Lange
“These photographs are clearly fixed facts of the real world impartially recorded by the camera, but they are something more as well.”
Painting, 1946 @ The Estate of Francis Bacon “”I think that life is violent and most people turn away from that side of it in an attempt to live a life that is screened. But I think they are merely fooling themselves. I mean, the act of birth is a violent thing, and the act […]
Tthe more cultures and countries you get exposed to, the more you see that people are alike. We are all the same.” Marc Riboud
“I was 28-years-old when I took my first photo, and it felt good.”
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Eggleston brought MoMA around eight carousels of slides made around 1970 from which Szarkowski chose seventy-five for the exhibition and, of those, forty-eight for publication in the Guide.
“I don’t apply labels to my photographs. I’d much rather have Max Kozloff do that. He’s much better at understanding and describing what I do.”
William Klein was invited to Tokyo in 1961, where he shot for three months and made more than 1,000 pictures.
Pettibon’s drawings say: sure, I’ll suck dick for cigarettes.
USA. Hampton, Virginia. 1962. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos “Look, I’m kind of an explorer. I’m entering a world and it takes time.” A Magnum photographer, Bruce Davidson has been renowned since the late fifties for his photographs of gangs in Brooklyn, and subsequent projects including New York’s East 100th street, circus performers, civil rights marchers […]