Approach Quote by Aaron Scharf

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became…

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

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 only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him.…

— Robert Adams

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would…

— Bill Brandt

“One who argues that photography is not art, only looks at the photograph, they do not look into its meaning”

— Katie Goodnough

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the…

— Ernst Haas

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

— A. D. Coleman

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

— Edward Weston

“Photography wasn’t even considered part of the art world until fairly recently. I find it ironic that some people in the world of fine-art…

— Richard Olsenius

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas