Unsterblich

Ephémère

"Ce que la photographie reproduit à l'infini n'a eu lieu qu'une fois: elle répète mécaniquement ce qui ne pourra jamais plus se répéter existentiellement" - Roland Barthes 

Secret

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know" - Diane Arbus

(New) Kids

Evaporation

"For Peter Hujar, love and lust were the primary engines of his creativity, and his men were often depicted in the highest pitch of orgasm. This is the moment, we are told, of suspension of ego, of evaporation of consciousness from the earthly plane" - Jeffrey Fraenkel

Mapplethorpe (III)

"Realizing that gay S&M practices hadn’t been photographed in an artistic way before, he found a subject matter that suited him. He loved sex. He loved photography, and now he could combine the two" - Patricia Morrisroe

Mapplethorpe (II)

"He pushed boundaries in every area of his life; he turned pornography into art; he elevated photography to the level of painting; he opened the debate about art and censorship. Ultimately, he did everything he set out to do, and he was only 42 when he died" - Patricia Morrisroe

Roquette

"When I look at the Roquette Rockers pictures now, the spirit of that era comes back to me: there is a freshness and honesty in this pictures that is missing from most work being made today, as photographers are increasingly self-conscious and self-promoting. The rockers want to look tough, but their youth and naiveté shine through. Today, Ken Pate's first and only book is, to his surprise, an object of fascination; for me, his pictures still evoke a sharp pleasure, a feeling that is now mixed with a stab of intense nostalgia" - Carole Naggar

Astuce

"S'il n'y a pas de trouble, il n'y a pas de bonne photo" - Bettina Rheims

Train

"I've been ridden trains over 50,000 miles and taken over 7,000 photos. I won first place and 10,000 dollars in a photo contest. I gave the money to my mom. I got internet famous. I deleted my website and stopped taking photos and went back to school and became a diesel mechanic. I quit being a diesel mechanic, but I learned how locomotives work. I started taking photos again. Paul introduced me to Jack. Jack's been making books for thirty years. Jack is publishing a book of my photographs. I don't want to be famous, but I hope this book is remembered forever" - Mike Brodie

Private

"These one-of-a-kind photographs were made primarily in Chicago at various large public festivals from 1980 through 1984. I have treasured these pictures for their depiction of universal experiences, yet they are also a record of a specific moment in time as communicated via the unique -and now, sadly obsolete- photographic medium of the Polaroid. These images were shot during the heat of summer days, very close to the subjects, as I struggled to carry a hand-held 4 by 5 Super Graphic 45 camera, boxes of Polaroid sheet film, and a Polaroid film back. These photographs are truly labors of love" - Barbara Crane

Intimacy

"My favorite pictures are the ones I have taken completely without having a viewer in mind. When I work on my personal pictures, the viewer doesn't enter my mind until I start the selection process for my website. And even then, I try not to think about him or her. If I did, i think a larger section of my work would remain unseen, as a lot of it is extremely personal to me and not initially captured to be viewed by others, but more to document. Or experiment. I guess that it is my almost forced disregard of the viewer that gives you the impression that I am fearless" - Lina Scheynius 

Prends-Moi

Woods