Career Quote by Brassai

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

— Margaret Mead

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was…

— Martin Parr

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'…

— John Szarkowski

“Photography theory is most often situated between art history, film theory, and communication studies”

— David Bate

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

— Mario Testino

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of…

— Fred Ritchin

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.…

— Peter C Bunnell

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if…

— Nickolas Muray

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston