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

 

 

 

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, 1948

"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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at."

Ruth Orkin

(1921 - 1985)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What makes a good Photograph? Your heart.

 

Lee Balterman

(1920 - 2012)

 

 

 

 

Sad Woman

 

 

100 years old, 1981

 

 

man rubbing feet, 1949

 

 

Chicago, circa1950

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes."

 

Mark Riboud

(2023 - 2016)

 

 

sovietic scool, 1960

 

 

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Mark RLuxemburg Gardens in Paris, 1953

 

 

Moscow, 1960. In Gorky, Park

 

 

London, 1954

 

 

Anshan, China, 1957. The engineer in this steelworks needs a separate phone for every line

 

 

boy reading a newspaper announcing the landing of the apollo mission on the moon 

Sage Sohier

(n. 1954, Washington, D.C.)

Passing Time, anos 80

“As maravilhas da vida diária são tão excitantes; nenhum realizador de cinema pode encenar o que se encontra na rua.”

Robert Doisneau

(1912 - 1994)

 

 

 

Rue Marcelin Berthelin Berthelot Choisy le Roi, 1946

 

L´Observateur a genoux 1956

salle de classe, 1957

La salle à manger de Madame Lucienne 1953

 

Professeur André Guillaumin, laboratoire de phanérogamie Jardin de plantes, 1943

 

Les chiots en laisse, 1934

 

Les concierges rue du Dragon,1964

 

Lecteur rural, 1945

 

Distribution des prix Raizeux, 1947

 

 Le discours d'Eugène Bucher, 1947

 

Philatéliste 1955

 

On the shore, 1951

 

Diagonal steps,Paris,1953

Francesc Català-Roca

(1922 - 1998) 

Mercado Grande, Ávila, 1955.

Dorothea Lange

(1895 - 1965)

Newspaper vendor keeping her feet warm in straw shoes. 1953

“Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel. You get on, you have to go to the end. And then somebody has the same opportunity to go to the end and so on.” 

     Vivian Maier

(1926 - 2009)

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Chicago, 1950

 New York, 1956

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

self-portrait, NY,1956

NY, 1959

 

 

 

self-portrait

 

1976

Chicago, 1976

1979

Chicago, 1979

"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

 

 

 

 

 

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