I love the history of photography and one process has…

In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really just…

— Keith Carter

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

— David Hockney

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photography is a process

— Nigel McKain

A photographic session is a joint, interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me, photography is…

— Norman Seeff

Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities…

— Anton Corbijn

“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history.…

— Chris Killip

I was in the right place at the right time.

— Mel Allen

“We are all part of the history of photography...”

— Wendy Erickson

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other…

— Joachim Schmid

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and…

— Richard Misrach