gelatin silver print, 1966
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"I got old the way women who aren't actresses grow old, the way the woman in the butcher shop does or a university professor or a prostitute."
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bromide print, 1969
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"I suppose I shall drop dead in the theatre, to a full house, I hope."
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gelatin silver print, 1969
@NPGLondon
"That feeling of the uncanny - the universe rhyming in a minor key, the recurring bad dream - is the undercurrent of almost all of Stevie Smith’s poems, although a few of them are festooned by joy."
- Cynthia Zarin
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"If we are to assess the best of her photojournalism it is to Cartier-Bresson that we must turn to find her soulmate."
- Germaine Greer
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"Nobody has taken so many wonderful photographs of so many great faces with such little fuss as Jane Bown... She hated being photographed too. I was lucky she trusted me, but she watched me like a hawk when I photographed her at 80."
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