Age Quote by Gilles Peress

Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts…

— Gregory Crewdson

The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the…

— William J. Mitchell

Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all…

— Arthur Rothstein

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

— Ansel Adams

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead,…

— Waswo X. Waswo

... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and…

— Richard Misrach

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.…

— Helmut Gernsheim

“As yet, though we live in a culture in which images are the dominant currency of communication, we have been unable to form an…

— Scott Bukatman

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way…

— Luigi Ghirri

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

— Arthur Rothstein

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

“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