Sepia Saturday 23 March 2013

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light." - Leonardo da Vinci

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."- Emile Zola

From - 1937 Film Version "The Life of Emile Zola"
He was an influential French novelist.

Apparently as rumor has it, Emile Zola was also a behind the scenes photographer in his day.

May I present, Emile Zola taking pictures.

 

Just look at everything and anything, as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.

 

Taken in Washington D.C.

There they sit, two photographers with their trusty hand-held cameras safely in their hands while being perched ever so dangerously on a roof.

I know you are surely beginning to wonder where I'm taking our theme this week?  Out on the edge so to speak.  My time for blogging much too short. 

Not to mention how incredible Emile Zola's quotes have been.  Perhaps you'll agree how fitting his quotes are even today, as you read more of his quotes along the way.

Photographer taking picture of a group with donkey on a crowded beach in Atlantic City N. J.  The card in the lady's hand reads, "I could stay in Atlantic City forever."





Sometimes, you just never know what some folks take to the beach.  But just so you know, there's always a photographer somewhere ready to capture anything.

"I am an artist.  I am here to live out loud."

 - Emile Zola

Herbert E. French proprietor of the National Studio Photo Company posed in his Washington D.C. studio.

It seems wandering through studios belonging to photographers can be rather eye opening into their, subject. 

"Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out." - Emile Zola

Such an odd pose and expression for a cartoonist, wouldn't you say?

 

Harris and Ewing- Photographer

Posing is Cartoonist Cliff Berryman

 

 

 

"There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman.  One is born a poet.  One becomes a craftsman."

 

- Emile Zola

 

 

 

Photographers, by trade or hobby they all have one main thing in common.

 

The joy of picture taking.

 

 

 

May 1943

Arlington Cemetery Virginia

Unknown woman taking pictures at the ceremony of laying a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

 

 

 

"The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones."

- Emile Zola


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