The photography of  Lisette Model





"I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because
of all photographic images, it comes closest to
the truth ... the snapshooter's pictures have an
apparent disorder and imperfection which is
exactly their appeal and their style."
                                         
                                              - Lisette Model





"Lisette Model is one of the foremost photo-
graphers of our time. Her prints record a relentless
probing and searching into realities among people,
their foibles, senselessness, sufferings, and on
occasion their greatness.

The resulting pictures are often camera equiv-
alents of bitter tongue lashings. She strikes swift,
hard and sharp, then comes to a dead stop, for
her work is devoid of all extraneous devices or
exaggerations."

                                              - Edward Steichen