Attention Quote by Frank Gohlke

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

— Berenice Abbott

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using…

— W. Eugene Smith

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by…

— W. Eugene Smith

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal…

— Bill Brandt

In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the…

— Arthur Rothstein

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

— Nikki Giovanni

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an…

— Bill Jay

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

Approaching subject matter to photograph is like meeting a person and beginning a conversation. How does one know ahead of time where that will…

— Michael Kenna