Courses Quote by A. D. Coleman

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of…

— Van Deren Coke

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

— Garry Winogrand

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

— Arnold Newman

“If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine…

— Whitney Otto

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek…

— Dawoud Bey

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there…

— Fred Ritchin