Eliminating Quote by Aaron Siskind

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

— James Gleick

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

“As yet, though we live in a culture in which images are the dominant currency of communication, we have been unable to form an…

— Scott Bukatman

If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as…

— Gregory Crewdson

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

— James Nachtwey

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that…

— Clint Eastwood

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world…

— Berenice Abbott

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and…

— Roger Ballen

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and…

— Susan Sontag

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The…

— Robert Adams

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology,…

— Sebastiao Salgado