Aesthetic Quote by Jeff Vespa

The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done…

— Lisette Model

I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have…

— Lisette Model

There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the…

— Sally Mann

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

— Janet Malcolm

I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer…

— Garry Winogrand

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

— Garry Winogrand

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers…

— Tod Papageorge

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

— Lisette Model

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do…

— Vilém Flusser

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of…

— Fred Ritchin