Anathema Quote by Berenice Abbott

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but…

— Joan Fontcuberta

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

— Jean-Francois Millet

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

— Andre Bazin

“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing…

— Roland Barthes

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their…

— Susan Sontag

“Something about the occasion makes me think I'm at my own wake. Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to…

— Don DeLillo

Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me…

— Barbara Kruger

“As to “Aesthetic Considerations,” Ansel counseled, “A photograph that is merely a superficial record of the subject fails as an aesthetic expression of that…

— Mary Street Alinder

Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something…

— Frederick H. Evans

Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can…

— A. D. Coleman