William Klein
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, lives in Paris.]
I’ve noticed that in general the Paris of photographers... was romantic, foggy and above all, ethnically homogeneous. But for me, Paris was, as much as and perhaps more than New York, a melting pot. A cosmopolitan city, multicultural and totally multiethnic, whatever Le Pen thinks.
Imogen Cunningham
[Photographer, b. 1883, Portland, d. 1976, San Francisco.]
Ansel once said to somebody that I was versatile, but what he really meant was that I jump around. I’m never satisfied staying in one spot very long. I couldn't stay with the mountains and I couldn’t stay with the trees and I couldn’t stay with the rivers. But I can always stay with people, because they really are different.
William Klein
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, lives in Paris.]
With all these so-called great photographers—Cartier-Bresson and Doisneau—everything is so hunky dory.
Paul Strand
[Photographer, b. 1890, New York, d. 1976, Oregeval, France.]
If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
Lewis Mumford
[Writer and critic, b. 1895, Flushing, New York, d. 1990, New York.]
It was Stieglitz’s endeavor... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual act but the entire relation of two personalities—to translate this world of blind touch into sight.
