Facts Quote by A. D. Coleman

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what…

— A. D. Coleman

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with…

— A. D. Coleman

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that…

— Harry Callahan

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

— Rachel Kushner

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs…

— Susan Sontag

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

— Joel Sternfeld

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

— Frederick Sommer

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

— Michael Heizer