Bears Quote by John Berger

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives...…

— Edmundo Desnoes

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are…

— John Berger

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for…

— Roy DeCarava

A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of…

— James Welling

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand

Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson