Cameras Quote by Bernd Becher

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

One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going…

— Grant Mudford

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by…

— Stephen Shore

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must…

— Henri Matisse

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed…

— Tina Modotti

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

— John Paul Caponigro

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own.…

— Robert Heinecken

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves…

— Joel Meyerowitz