Books Quote by Cindy Sherman

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

— JR

My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while…

— W. Eugene Smith

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good…

— John Gutmann

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

Seeing lesbian photography is just the tip of my radicalized clitoris. I have modeled for, commissioned, published, and fought for these pictures, and answered…

— Susie Bright

It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique subject, but…

— Connor Franta

Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not trying to…

— Alex Webb

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may…

— Richard Avedon

There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone…

— John Loengard

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

“Although the pictures shown here cannot be taken as representative of gender behavior in real life... one can probably make a significant negative statement…

— Erving Goffman