Discussion Quote by Bill Jay

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

— Bill Brandt

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

— Marc Riboud

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

— Andy Grundberg

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

— W. Eugene Smith

Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of…

— Lucy R. Lippard

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

— Duane Michals

Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.

— Laurent Baheux

I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography…

— Michael Kenna

“Sameness... the new ‘unique’. So photographers seem to be flocking toward simple, easy to understand ‘solutions’ instead of flocking toward hard work, development of…

— Don Giannatti

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead,…

— Waswo X. Waswo

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

— Peter Lindbergh

I think a way that feminist photographers work is turning what was the object into the subject and really making it our own.

— Petra Collins