Camera lenses Quote by Frederick H. Evans

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.

— John Paul Caponigro

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how…

— Ernst Haas

“Sameness... the new ‘unique’. So photographers seem to be flocking toward simple, easy to understand ‘solutions’ instead of flocking toward hard work, development of…

— Don Giannatti

Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives),…

— Craig Owens

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in…

— John Szarkowski

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

— Edward Steichen

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

— Susan Sontag

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

— Walter Rosenblum

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know…

— Robert Adams

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely…

— Paul Strand

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it…

— Susan Sontag

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as…

— Andreas Feininger