HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

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es the pictures disappeared and there is nothing you can do. You can’t tell the person, oh, please smile again do that gesture again. Life is once, forever. I’m not interested in documenting. Documenting is extremely dull and journalism…I’m a very bad reporter and a photojournalist. Capa told me when I had an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art in ’46, he said no, he’d be very careful. You mustn’t have a label of a surrealist photo…

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman”

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s goes along with another question you had about him — I am not only an environmental but a portrait photographer. So, I am going to the concerts all the time. I love music. Everything from Beethoven to good New Orleans jazz. I would watch the piano or notice the piano. It was strong, harsh, beautiful and it looked like a big flat. It looked very much like his own work. We went on from that point after we researched his apartment to find th…

INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman”

INTERVIEW: “Interview with Julius Shulman” (1990)

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INTERVIEW: “Interview with Julius Shulman” (1990)

RICHARD AVEDON: “Listening to Avedon” (1995)

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By Vince Leo, Afterimage, Sept-Oct, 1995 Of all Avedon’s recent testimonials, none is more concise or revealing as a short cassette tape audio tour of his 1994-95 retrospectiveEvidence” made for the show’s last tour stop, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA). Culled from interviews with radio journalist and independent producer Connie Goldman conducted over a 25-year period beginning in 1970, the audio tour of R…

RICHARD AVEDON: “Listening to Avedon” (1995)