Documents Quote by Chris Killip

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more…

— Alison Jackson

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

— David Doubilet

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

— Paul Caponigro

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

— Martha Rosler

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave…

— Alec Soth

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

I wanted to go to the end of photography.

— Daido Moriyama

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give…

— Sarah Moon

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

— John Szarkowski