Marion Post Wolcott
[Photographer, b. 1910, Bloomfield, New Jersey, d. 1990, Santa Barbara, California.]
Women are tough, supportive, sensitive, intelligent, and creative. They are survivors. Women have come a long way, but not far enough. Ahead still are formidable hurdles. Speak with your images from your heart and soul. Give of yourselves. Trust your gut reactions. Suck out the juices—the essence of your life experiences. Get on with it. It may not be too late.
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.
Lucy Lippard
[Critic and writer, b. 1936, New York, lives in Galisteo, New Mexico.]
Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus “shooting” a “virgin” landscape has been man’s work—hunting, not gardening.
Helmut Newton
[Photographer, b. 1920, Berlin, d. 2004, Los Angeles.]
Of course I love women. Or else I wouldn’t have spent so much time photographing them and I would be homosexual.
Simone de Beauvoir
[Writer and philosopher, b. 1908, Paris, d. 1986, Paris.]
Representation of the world like the world itself is the work of men, they describe it from their point of view which they confuse with absolute truth.
Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
Women and men—it’s an impossible subject, because there can be no answers. We can find only bits and pieces of clues.
Bettina Rheims
[Photographer, b. 1952, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, lives in Paris.]
I still find myself having to justify being a woman taking pictures of naked women. It never occurred to me that there was something bizarre about it, it always felt very natural.
Margaret Atwood
[Writer, b. 1939, Ottawa, Canada, lives in Toronto.]
Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.
