Cameras Quote by Garry Winogrand

From the time I started taking photographs, I started working with plastics. I've always treated plastic like it was marble or gemstone or fine…

— Laurie Simmons

Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The…

— Bernd Becher

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

— Annie Leibovitz

Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full…

— Nikolay Semyonov

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

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

... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always…

— Thomas Ruff

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see…

— Ernst Haas

For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point…

— Thomas Struth

Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto