Employing Quote by A. D. Coleman

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment…

— David Hurn

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it…

— John Berger

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over…

— Eva Rubinstein

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

— Lisette Model

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all…

— Edward Weston