“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
Ansel Adams Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico 1941 gelatin silver mural print, flush-mounted on board, printed late 1960s 40 7/8 x 59 ¼ in. Price realised USD 930,000
“A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That’s not what it’s about for me. It’s really about relationships and feelings…it’s really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don’t understand that it’s not about a style or a look or a setup. It’s about emotional obsession and empathy.”
Nan Goldin Nan and Brian in Bed, N.Y.C., 1983 1983 Cibachrome print 24 ½ x 38 in. Price realised USD 63,000
“Photography is a lie. I am not talking about the kind of lie where the camera deceives people into believing something is what it isn’t. I’m talking about how photography can misrepresent the truth.”
David Bailey John Lennon and Paul McCartney 1965 platinum-palladium print. 19½ x 19½in. (49.5 x 49.5cm.) Price realised GBP 18,750
“I don’t have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It’s not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn’t do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.”
William Eggleston Untitled c. 1971-1974 pigment print, flush-mounted on board, printed 2012 overall framed: 60 x 44 in. (152 x 112 cm.) Price realised USD 1,441,500
