Whitby, England © 1974 Ian Berry / Magnum Photos
The point of 35 mm photography for me is to remain unobserved, working with the available light, watching, waiting and looking, discovering pictures while a scene is in motion.
-Ian Berry
Francis Bacon, December 14, 1984 © Neil Libbert
The French House in Soho was the location for this impromptu shot of Francis Bacon. Libbert had called in for a lunchtime pint and found the pub empty apart from the painter, who drank there regularly. There was no film in Libbert’s camera so he loaded it surreptitiously and then secretly took two shots. Bacon was so deep in thought he did not notice him. Libbert never intended the picture to be published but it eventually appeared in the Observer some years later alongside the artist’s obituary
- The Guardian
ENGLAND—Teenagers at a jazz festival, 1964. © Philip Jones Griffiths / Magnum Photos
Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race. If that’s all your doing, it still a very very worth while profession to be involved in.
-Philip Jones Griffiths
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