Lisette Model

Lisette Model (Austrian, 1901-1983)
"The camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know" www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/li…

Inspirational teacher for a whole generation of young photographers, most notably Diane Arbus, at The New School, Model produced many noteworthy series of photographs. Her candid portraits of people on the fringes of society secured her reputation, and she went on to produce portfolios such as Reflections, portraying those mysterious images in store windows along Fifth Avenue. (from The Photography Encyclopedia by Fred McDarrah)


"Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in."

"... photography is an art form which means: human beings expressing their understanding of and connection with life, themselves, and other human beings."

"I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style."

(A History of Street Photography by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck)









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New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. -

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the powere of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of split second. -

Don't shoot until you feel it in your gut. -

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography. -

I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don't want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson. -

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest. -