Cameras Quote by David Hockney

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it…

— John Szarkowski

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry.…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the…

— Daido Moriyama

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

— Mary Ellen Mark

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP,…

— Lisette Model

There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this…

— Robert Smithson

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the…

— Paul Valery

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch