RON HENGGELER

April 28, 2024
Faces of San Francisco - Part 3

I’ve been photographing in San Francisco and the Bay Area for 47 years. I have a photo library holding many thousands of pictures. Some of my favorite photos are the portraits I’ve made. 

For the past two weeks, I've been revisiting my photo collections to select only portraits that I am then editing and posting on Instagram as reels paired with classical music. Here are some of the portraits that were chosen. 

The full collection of these portraits in seven parts with music can be viewed here: 

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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Dorothea Lange

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

Berenice Abbott

Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.

Berenice Abbott

Chiaroscuro is an Italian term which literally means ‘light-dark’. In paintings and photos, the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modeling of the subjects depicted.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. 

Aaron Siskind

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Imogen Cunningham

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.

Alice Bailey

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

When I make a picture, I make love.

Alfred Stieglitz