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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly… — Susan Sontag
The best photographs are made by the best people. — Morley Baer
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a… — Berenice Abbott
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change… — Aaron Siskind
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible,… — Henri Matisse
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to… — John Szarkowski
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts… — Roman Vishniac
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make… — John Szarkowski
They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection. — John Szarkowski
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. — Beaumont Newhall
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history. — Beaumont Newhall
The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in… — David Hurn
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding… — Edward Weston
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before,… — Sam Abell
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer… — Sam Abell
While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph. — Lewis Hine
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen Rowell
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. — Garry Winogrand
The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season. — Anne Geddes
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less… — Susan Sontag
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… — Susan Sontag
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor. — Alfred Stieglitz
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. — Victor Skrebneski
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There… — Robert Heinecken

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