“Le seizième arrondissement fournit aussi son contingent de jeunes filles qui marchent pieds nus pour se mettre à la page mais dont la tenue estivale reste très ‘Racing’ (jupes de tennis plissées et pull-over de cachemire.” Irene Dervize, Paris Match n°488, 1958.

“The visual art of Robert Pollard is uncanny, moving, strange, and it summons a dark melancholy at the same time; an austere beauty is forged in what is degraded and worthless in the image repertoire of culture itself.” Rick Moody, from his introduction, The reassembled imagery of Robert Pollard, Town of Mirrors, 2008.