Definitions Quote by Andreas Gursky

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,

— Jeff Wall

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

— Ai Weiwei

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.

— Walead Beshty

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

— Ken Rockwell

Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey.

— Stacy Martin

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the…

— Daido Moriyama

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

“Photography is the power of observation,and not the application of technology....”

— Prerna Sharma

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of…

— Geoffrey Batchen