Cameras Quote by Berenice Abbott

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial…

— Paul Strand

Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you…

— Paul Strand

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

— Garry Winogrand

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates,…

— Berenice Abbott

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to…

— Ansel Adams

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough…

— Robert Frank

“Photographs allow for connections to be made and for time to pause to appreciate all the world has to offer.”

— Dustin Thibideau

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

— Neil Postman

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of…

— Walker Evans