Important Quote by John Loengard

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

— Garry Winogrand

To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often…

— Todd Hido

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting

It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to…

— Steve McCurry

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial…

— Paul Strand

Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you…

— Paul Strand

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may…

— Richard Avedon

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance,…

— Lacey Chabert

Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

— Torbjørn Rødland