Attention Quote by Fred Ritchin

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it…

— John Berger

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

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

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to…

— Lisette Model

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts -…

— Maggie Steber

We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the…

— Uta Barth