Mouth of a Crocodile, Kubi Fora, 1965

"I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable."

- Peter Beard [1938-2020]

most expensive photograph

Peter Lik [born 1959], took "Phantom" in an area known as “Antelope Canyon” in Arizona, USA, that auctioned in 2014 for $65 million.

raconteur

"Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss."

- Peter Ustinov

American Dream

"It's called that because you have to be asleep to believe it."
- George Carlin

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Enlarge images for a reasonable price here. Old family photos. Magazine advertisements. Internet files. Art work that would be better bigger.

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eruption

A common belief was that chimps would be produced by inter-racial relationships.

Photograph by Garry Winogrand.

young man

"Life is the art, not the work."
- Attributed to Robert Mapplethorpe

camouflage

A rhinoceros in the Namibia desert, photographed by Marosjka Lavigne, winner of the Sony World Photography Landscape Photographer of the Year Award.

Energy

"We never walk. We run."
- Hong Kong axiom

Image by Nero Chan

arsenic and mercury

John Dryden, 1856

Robert Howlett succumbed to the hazards of early photography at the age of 27.

"Success can kill a business that isn't ready for it."
- Nick Woodman, GoPro

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"I see the world through photography. It could be I'm afraid to see the world realistically and I need the barrier."
- Barbara Cole


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Modus operandi

"If there are any rules they should be broken."
- Photographer Lincoln Clarkes

subjects

"Generally they're very happy for me to [photograph them]."
- Lana Slezic

long exposure photography

"You're allowed more liberty with a black and white photograph. It can make a scene unreal or heighten it to a different level that you can't quite do with colour photography."
- Michael Levin

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"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you're not being followed."
- Bob Gruen, Photographer

theory

"People are here to teach things or learn things. That's it."
- Drew Carey

portable

Robert Frank was a father of 35mm photography.

The Blue of Distance, 2008

"I use landscape to change my emotional state."

- Catherine Opie

"The wider world perceives fashion sometimes as frivolity that should be done away with in the face of social upheavals. The problems are enormous. The point is in fact that fashion is the armour to survive the reality of everyday life. I don't think you could do away with it. It'd be like doing away with civilization."
- Bill Cunningham, octogenarian New York Times photographer