You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street,… — Minor White Copy Share Image
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only… — Leon Levinstein Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else. — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me? — Lillie Langtry Copy Share Image
Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa,… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to… — O. Winston Link Copy Share Image
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more… — George A Tice Copy Share Image
...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of… — Keith Shackleton Copy Share Image
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image