Becoming Quote by Andre Bazin

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

A picture is a model of reality.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

To model an object is to possess it.

— Pablo Picasso

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake…

— John Divola

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

— Andre Bazin

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for…

— Roy DeCarava

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

— Ernst Haas

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

— Paul Strand

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

— Garry Winogrand