Alexander Gardiner - John Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln & John Hay. November 8, 1863, one week before Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

Charles Demuth self-portrait, 1907

Charles Demuth self-portrait, 1907

Cecil Beaton photographing Keith Richards
1967
By Michael Cooper

Sometimes you see a picture and just say “Oh my!”

Sting, by David Bailey
From the first exhibition I ever curated.

Robert RauschenbergPostcard Self Portrait Black Mountain I1952

Robert Rauschenberg
Postcard Self Portrait Black Mountain I
1952

Good art should elicit a response of ‘Huh? Wow!’ as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?’”
- Ed Ruscha
Formulas are inevitable…The trick is making them imperfect.
I have ONE SHOT at getting the reader to stop flipping through the magazine, so it has to be provocative or shocking, beautiful or unusual, or nobody’s going to pay attention.”
Phyllis Posnick, VOGUE Executive Fashion Editor.
It’s a passion. I never really thought about the other side. What am I going to do? It was doing what I need to do to get by.”
Eric Hurd, 26, US Olympic slalom canoeist, on working several jobs and making ends meet in order to train and compete.
He just as easily could be talking about pursuing a career as an artist.
The New York Times, Friday, August 31, 2012

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

—LEO TOLSTOY, Anna Karenina, Book 1, Chapter 11