Abstract Quote by James Nachtwey

Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another.…

— Vincent Laforet

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it…

— Beaumont Newhall

Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we…

— Martin Parr

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

— Eli Siegel

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that…

— Trevor Paglen

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

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.

— Willi Munzenberg

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a…

— Hedi Slimane

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world…

— Berenice Abbott

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

— Arthur Rothstein

“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world…

— Vilém Flusser

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

— Beaumont Newhall