“Your photography is a record of your living—for anyone who really sees. […] You may see and be affected by other people’s ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have to eventually free yourself from them.”

— Paul Strand [article here and more here]

Paul Strand, Blind Woman, New York, 1917

“The painting of a target by Jasper Johns was an atomic bomb in my training. I knew that I had seen something truly profund. Johns was unknown and so was his kind of art. The teachers said it was not art. Twenty years later, of course, what does their art resemble?”

— Edward Ruscha, Statement in 50 West Coast Artists, p. 11

Section 22, from Gravure Group (E. 236), 1995, Photogravure printed on Somerset paper

Lennart Olson, Pinjer Ostia, Photogravure, 1954, printed 1983

Karl Blossfeldt, Adiantum Pedatum (American Maidenhair Fern) [#55] [Young rolled-up fronds enlarged 8 times]

Original vintage photogravure. c1900-1928. Printed 1929

Karl Blossfeldt, Salvia Argentea (Silver-leaved Sage) [#61] [Part of a flowering plant enlarged 4 times]

Original vintage photogravure. c1900-1928. Printed 1929

Willy Zielke, Spinngewebe, Original vintage photogravure, c1931, printed 1931