Boundaries Quote by Geoffrey Batchen

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so…

— Clement Greenberg

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that…

— Trevor Paglen

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there…

— Chuck Close

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the…

— Charles Baudelaire

In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really just…

— Keith Carter

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes…

— Michael Snow

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

— John Gossage

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard