Swiss Adventurer, Traveller, Writer, and Photographer - Ella Maillart...

Ella Maillart  -  February 20, 1903 to March 27, 1997

I always respected the rebel in strong, independent, intellectual women who does not conform. 

Ella Maillart, Jour de foire à Weichang, dans l’ancienne province de Jehol, découverte de la lanterne magique, Manchourie, 1934 © Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne

She started exploring the Orient/Asia in the 1930s. She got to be famous for her travels, photography and books. 

Photo by Ella Maillart 

She wrote for Le Petit Parisien during the Japanese occupation in Manchuria as well as later when she was traveling in Afghanistan, Turkey and Persia. 

Photo by Ella Maillart 

She went on a 7 months journey from Peking to Srinagar with Peter Fleming crossing the Himalayas. She studied Hindu philosophy in India and continued travel during her life. From 1957 to 1987 she organized cultural tours into Asia.

A few of her books to read:

Turkestan Solo - One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum - 1932

Forbidden Journey - From Peking to Cashmir  - 1935

Gypsy Afloat - Her years at Sea

The Land of the Sherpas - Nepal - 1951

The Art of Bullfighting - French Photographer - Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue in 2008 (Photo by Unknown)

He was the first photographer to be elected to the Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris. He is decorated as Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, et Académicien des Beaux Arts.

All Photos below by Photographer Lucien Clergue

He has always been associated with some of France's most important artists.

Born in 1934 in Arles, France a man who definitely understands...

 the beauty...

 of women as living sculptures ... 

...and the  Art of Bullfighting .

El Cordobes - Nimes - 1963

I have always been a Bullfight Aficionado - these photographs are pure art,  captured in the moment of time and expression. 

El Cordobes

Lucien Clergue meets Picasso in Arles (France) in 1953 - their friendship lasted a lifetime.  Together at the  bullfights in France they experienced  the Art of Bullfighting. 

El Cordobes

Paquirri

Lucien Clergue has  published more than 75 books in France, USA, Japan, Germany, Italy, England, Spain, and Canada.

Taureau  Mourant

Diego Puerto - Bilbao 1970

His original photographs are on sale at Galerie Patrice Trigano in Paris, France.

To Life - Masterpieces in the Wild Gardens of Nature...When no Flowers Bloom...

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

the contrast of color.........

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“It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees” -Dame Edith Sitwell
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"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual." - Vladimir Nabokov
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Hidden...beyond our sight.....
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listen ......can you hear the nostalgic rythms of the great classical composers......
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Smell....
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the living scent of nature.....

...45 minutes with my Camera...Instant Moments Captured...Somewhere in Europe....

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

- Ansel Adams

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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

. You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears. - Paul Cezanne

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. .Photography concentrates one’s eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can’t catch that even with the sharpest lens. One has to grope for it by feeling. - Franz Kafka

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Of all forms of expression, photography is the only one which seizes the instant in its flight. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Lifestyles....

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. Sometimes we have to look into the picture - instead of - at the picture to discover the photographers message...

It's no good saying "hold it" to a moment in real life. - Lord Snowdon

. The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. - Henri Cartier-Bresson .

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Photography is nothing--it's life that interests me. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

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"Fish-eye"...............