Charis Wilson
[Model, b. 1914, San Francisco, d. 2009, Santa Cruz, California.]
Well, there’s a famous limerick on [making love with the model]:While Titian was mixing rose madder,
His model was posed on a ladder,
Her position to Titian,
Suggested coition,
So he ran up the ladder and had her.
Anders Petersen
[Photographer, b. 1944, Solna, Sweden, lives in Stockholm.]
(Be wary of:nicely formulated principles and truths.
useless feelings of guilt and sins of the past
or while we’re at it
a
photograph resembling pretty adjectives
on the other hand, I like private
diaries and family albums
Imogen Cunningham
[Photographer, b. 1883, Portland, d. 1976, San Francisco.]
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet. Jay Maisel
[Photographer, b. 1931, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New York.]
I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I’ll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, “I try to create the poem from the evidence.” W.H. Auden
[Poet and writer, b. 1907, York, North Yorkshire, England, d. 1973, Vienna, Austria.]
The steady eyes of the crow and the camera’s candid eyeSee as honestly as they know how, but they lie.
Charles Bukowski
[Writer, b. 1920, Andernach, Germany, d. 1994, San Pedro, California.]
I put her photo by the radionear the fan
and it moved
like something
alive.
Frank Horvat
[Photographer, b. 1928, Abbazia, Italy, now Opatija, Croatia, lives in Paris.]
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry—or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku. Alec Soth
[Photographer, b. 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.]
[Photography is] very related to poetry. It’s suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It’s as much about what you leave out as what you put in.