Action Quote by Henry Fox Talbot

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

— John Berger

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

— Keith Carter

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

— George Eastman

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically]…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain that the…

— J.M. Coetzee

Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance…

— Helmut Gernsheim

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it…

— John Szarkowski

“Photography is the power of observation,and not the application of technology....”

— Prerna Sharma

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

— Martha Rosler

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

— Laura Gilpin

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

— Rudolf Arnheim