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PAUL NOUGE ~ LE BRAS REVELATEUR

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Paul Nouge
Le Bras Revelateur (1929)

Paul Nougé (1895–1967) was a Belgian poet, philosopher and surrealist photographer who heavily influenced the Belgian Surrealist School of which he was a member. He was a friend and associate of fellow artists Louis Scutenaire, Marcel Mariën and René Magritte – whom he was a major influence upon.

ROBERT DOISNEAU ~ THE ABSORBENT PHOTOGRAPHER

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“If you take photographs, don’t speak, don’t write, don’t analyse yourself, and don’t answer any questions.”

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau, 1950

JAROMIR FUNKE

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Jaromir Funke,
Composition,1932

 

TINA MODOTTI ~ DONNA UNIVERSALE

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” I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.”

Tina Modotti (August 16 (or 17) 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist.

Tina Modotti with her arms raised
Edward Weston, ca.1921

THE BUTTERFLY OF BRASSAI AND KEATS…

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“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Jules Brassai
Papillon à la bougie, 1933

EMILA MEDKOVA, EYES

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Emila Medkova,

Eyes, 1965

Emila Medková, née Emila Tláskalová (19 November 1928 – 19 September 1985) was a Czech photographer, one of the important exponents of the Czech art photography in the second half of the 20th century. Her work was influenced by Surrealism. She was the wife of painter Mikuláš Medek.

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THE TOLSTOY FAMILY ~ A LIFE IN PICTURES

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Count Lev Tolstoy and his Wife Countess Sophia Tolstoy

At Home in Tolstoy’s Study, 1907

JULES BRASSAI ~ ON THE EXTRAORDINARY

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“I don’t invent anything. I imagine everything… most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.”

Jules Brassai

MAN RAY ~ ON INSPIRATION

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“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
― Man Ray
Photograph is Man Ray in his studio, Paris, 1939.

GEORGE BRASSAI ~ THE NEED OF PASSION

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In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.

GEORGE BRASSAI

passers-by in the rain , 1935

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