Containers Quote by John Szarkowski

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

— Garry Winogrand

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,

— Jeff Wall

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

— Bill Jay

“To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see…

— Anonymous

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