Challenges Quote by Beaumont Newhall

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it…

— Beaumont Newhall

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

— Dennis Stock

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

— John Szarkowski

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

— James Nachtwey

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

— Emmet Gowin

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

— Clarence John Laughlin

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal…

— Joyce Tenneson

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

— Sid Grossman