Contrary Quote by Berenice Abbott

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it…

— Bill Henson

The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it…

— Gisele Freund

I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it.…

— Ralph Gibson

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would…

— Abelardo Morell

Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world…

— Alain de Botton

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and…

— Wynn Bullock

I guess my choice of medium depends on how I want to interpret the idea. Sometimes the interpretation works best in a photograph, and…

— Wardell Milan

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there…

— Chuck Close

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full…

— Ansel Adams

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

— Arthur Rothstein

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely…

— Paul Strand

I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve an audience with people.…

— Frank Capra