Front Quote by Frans Lanting

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

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

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

When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph…

— Jason Fulford

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

— Richard Avedon

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore,…

— Susan Sontag

There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera…

— Robert Adams

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel…

— Robert Frank

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much…

— Richard Avedon

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the…

— Robert Keith Leavitt

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to…

— Bruce Barnbaum

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how…

— Massimo Vitali