Care Quote by Gilles Peress

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

— Chuck Close

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

— Keith Carter

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

— David Hockney

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

— Beaumont Newhall

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

“We are all part of the history of photography...”

— Wendy Erickson

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry.…

— Trevor Paglen

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the…

— Paul Valery

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first…

— Rachel Morrison