Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image