Biology Quote by John Szarkowski

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

— Bill Jay

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the…

— Berenice Abbott

Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it…

— Joseph Kosuth

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an…

— Berenice Abbott

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy…

— Eliot Porter

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

— David Hockney

“We are all part of the history of photography...”

— Wendy Erickson

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

— Elliott Erwitt

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

— James Nachtwey