Approach Quote by Howard S. Becker

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

Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers,…

— Howard S. Becker

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is…

— Alfred Stieglitz

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

— Elliott Erwitt

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is…

— Edward Weston

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

— W. Eugene Smith

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

— Herbert Bayer

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the…

— Bjork