Dozen Quote by Anonymous

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from…

— Bill Cunningham

[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

— Joel Sartore

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the…

— Robert Barry

Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned…

— Lucy R. Lippard

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

Though Geographic didn't publish that photo in the story that it was done for, "The Life of Charlie Russell," a cowboy artist in Montana.…

— Sam Abell

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a…

— Duane Michals

There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took…

— Robert Hass

I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the distance one…

— Mark Klett

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

— Marie Calloway

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects…

— Pamela Ribon