“Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.”

Stanley Kubrick

(1928 - 1999)

“The photographer gives us a record of what happened at the instant of exposure, but the creative photographer unveils for us what we did not see or could not understand.”

Louis Stettner

(1922–2016)

quai de seine paris,1950

"You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart."

George Rodger

(1908 - 1995)

Waiting for the invasion, England, 1940

Postman, England, 1940

Reading Casualty Lists at Coventry

Reconstruction after the War, Winegrowers in the Village of Argenda

Rabbis in the La Ghirba Synagogue, Djerba Island, Tunisia

Shopkeeper posts handwritten advertisements in his window following WWII, c-1946

"You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy."

Elliott Erwitt

(1928 - 2023)

New York, Mailyn Monroe, 1954

US Vice President Richard Nixon on his way to visit US President Dwight Eisenhower at the hospital after his heart attack. Washington D.C. USA. 1955

1967

Found not lost, Paris, 1952

found not lost, 1978

NY, 1962

Managua, Nicaragua, 1957

chateau de versailles, 1975

"I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done."

André kertéz

(1894-1985)

Self-portrait with chat noir, Paris, 1925

Full view

"If I am looking for a story at all, it is in my relationship to the subject — the story that tells me, rather than that I tell."

Bruce Davidson

(1933 - )

Gordon Parks- Harlem Rally, NY, 1963

I love a fantom, 1960

Martin Luter King Jr, 1963

Central Park. New York City. USA. 1965

Subway. New York City. USA. 1980

subway Brooklyn,1980

subway,NYC, 1980

"I never thought of myself as doing other than telling stories"

Erich Lessing

(1923 - 2018)

Newspaper vendor keeping her feet warm in straw shoes. 1953

anos 50

Jeorge London reharsing

A scene in Budapest in 1956 during the Hungarian uprising against Soviet domination

Registration in a Turkish refugee camp. Edirne (Turkey). 1951

"Fotografare è una maniera di vivere. Ma importante è la vita, non la fotografia."

Ferdinando Scianna

(1943-

Henri cartier.bresson, 1986

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

Gordon Parks

(1912 - 2006)

Harlem Rally, NY, 1963

Gordon Parks. Soapbox Orator, Harlem, New York. 1952 | MoMA

Soapbox Orator, Harlem, New York. 1952

Two boys reading, ca. 1940

Red's young brother at home, Harlem, 1948

Red Jackson with His Mother and Brother, Harlem, New York by Gordon Parks

Red Jackson with His Mother and Brother, Harlem, New York, 1948

"The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it."

Harold Feinstein

(1931 – 2015)

Boardwalk Stairs, 1950

Asleep on the ytain, 1947

Yanks learn fast french, France, 1944

Reading Blondie comics, 1952

Cramped quarters, 1952

sarge, 1953

Barracots, 1952

GI reading in shipboard dooway, 1952

GI reading pamphlet shipboard 1952

reading poetry, 1988

"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life."

Henri Cartier-Bresson

(1908 - 2004)

"In My heart I like to remain an amateur, in the sense of being in love with what I'm doing, forever astonished again at the endless possibilities of seeing and using the camera as a recording tool."

Inge Morath

(1923 - 2002)