Celebrate Quote by Jamake Highwater

While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in microscopic detail,…

— Edward S. Curtis

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

“This book does not try to “document” any particular aspect of Indian life. To me, doing such a thing would seem a pretentious and…

— Waswo X. Waswo

“Over the years the Indian leadership, and the educated Indian, have deliberately projected and embellished an image about Indians that they know to be…

— Pavan K. Varma

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think,…

— Sam Abell

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it. We are…

— Abhimanyu Singh

The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are…

— Tee Corinne

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

— Errol Morris

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

— Jamake Highwater