“PHOTOGRAPHERS AS COLLECTORS OF THE WORLD”
“Being a photographer and being a collector… “It’s Almost the same thing… (one) gets excessively conscious of a certain kind of object, falls in love with it, then pursues it… It’s compulsive and you can hardly stop.”
(Walker Evans, as qtd. in ‘Photography Collected Us’ at the University of Toronto Art Centre, http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/current-exhibitions/261-qphotography-collected-us-the-malcolmson-collection-)
Photo above fm. ‘Photography Collected Us’: Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sète, albumen silver print from two wet collodion glass negatives. Negative: 1856. Collection of Ann and Harry Malcolmson
