Balance Quote by James Nachtwey

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions…

— James Nachtwey

Why photograph war? Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior, which has existed throughout history, by the means…

— James Nachtwey

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

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

— John Szarkowski

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

— Susan Sontag

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP,…

— Lisette Model

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

— James Balog