Photographer Gustave Le Gray

November 5, 2009 by planetcity1

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Gustave Le Gray:

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The Imperial Yacht Reine Hortense

November 5, 2009 by planetcity1

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The Imperial Yacht Reine Hortense, Le Havre 1856

(photograph by Gustave Le Gray)

Quote of the Day

November 5, 2009 by planetcity1

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The future of photography 

does not lie in the cheapness 

but in the quality of a picture. 

If a photograph is beautiful,

complete, and durable, it

acquires an intrinsic value

before which its price disappears

entirely. For my part, it is my

wish that photography, rather

than falling into domain of

 

industry or of commerce, might remain in that of art.

That is its only true place, and I shall always seek

to make it progress in that direction. 

 

Gustave Le Gray

(1820-1884)

French Photographer

Photographer Eva Fuka

November 2, 2009 by planetcity1

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today’s Quote of the Day Photographer,

Eva Fuka:

 

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Quote of the Day

November 2, 2009 by planetcity1

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I love Surrealism. I really do.

I like the absurd view and

Surrealism is most close to it –

to combine things which

don’t really go together

but yet somehow do anyway

because that is the way

life is – absolutely absurd.

 

 

Eva Fuka

(1927 -    )

Czech-born American Photographer

Museums Sheffield Flickr Competition [UK only]

October 28, 2009 by planetcity1

Museum Sheffield

 

 

 

This competition can only be entered by our friends

across the pond.

 

The theme is home.

 

Deadline 13 November 2009.

 

Full details at the following addy:

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Enter and you could win a Canon EOS 400D DSLR .

 

 

Fes-te Fauvista Winners Announced

October 27, 2009 by planetcity1

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San Francisco artist Peter Combe was among the winners 

in the recent Fauvist competition sponsored by Museu

Picasso Barcelona.

 

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Peter’s blog can be found at the following addy:

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Quote of the Day

October 27, 2009 by planetcity1

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Each photograph is only a small,

flat series of tones from black to

white. Its depth is an illusion, its

animation symbolic. Yet it has this

mysterious richness transcending

all its limitations so that our

impressions of major and complex

events may be permanently

fashioned by a single news

photograph.

 

Harold Evans

(1928 -    )

British-born Journalist & Writer

Photographer Nell Dorr

October 26, 2009 by planetcity1

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Nell Dorr:


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Quote of the Day

October 26, 2009 by planetcity1

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My picture-taking and picture-making

are as different as day and night. I

take my pictures quite unconsciously.

I see them in my mind and. . .

it is done without thinking. I feel the

exposure. My only concern is to

be ready for that moment of truth,

always ready to grasp it quickly

before it’s gone, or to wait


patiently until that split-second when it appears.


Nell Dorr

(1895-1988)

American Photographer