Cases Quote by Jerry Uelsmann

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is…

— Gore Vidal

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents…

— Eugene Richards

Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for…

— Alexey Brodovitch

The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of…

— Siegfried Kracauer

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects…

— Pamela Ribon

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly…

— Howard Hodgkin

“NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it…

— Ambrose Bierce

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and…

— Gerhard Richter

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.

— E. J. Hughes

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth.…

— Vik Muniz