Stephen Spender
[Writer, poet, and critic, b. 1909, London, England, d. 1995, London.]

When—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.]

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.]

I believe that much unseen is also here.


Imogen Cunningham
[Photographer, b. 1883, Portland, d. 1976, San Francisco.]



Charis Wilson
[Model, b. 1914, San Francisco, d. 2009, Santa Cruz, California.]

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.]



Luc Delahaye
[Photographer, b. 1962, Tours, France, lives in Paris.]



Vladimir Nabokov
[Writer, b. 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia, d. 1977, Montreux, Switzerland.]

My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs.


















