Stephen Spender
[Writer, poet, and critic, b. 1909, London, England, d. 1995, London.]
Dead friend, this picture proves there was an instantWhen—mirror of midday—you sent
Shadow and light from living flesh into
The sensitive dark instrument.
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
Walt Whitman
[Writer and poet, b. 1819, South Huntington, Long Island, New York, d. 1892, Camden, New Jersey.]
You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,I believe that much unseen is also here.
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. 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.
Tod Papageorge
[Photographer, b. 1940, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, lives in New Haven, Connecticut.]
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations. Luc Delahaye
[Photographer, b. 1962, Tours, France, lives in Paris.]
Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. Vladimir Nabokov
[Writer, b. 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia, d. 1977, Montreux, Switzerland.]
All colors made me happy: even gray.My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs.