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In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to…

— Graciela Iturbide

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

— Pieter Hugo

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward.…

— Larry Clark

I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.

— Bob Anderson

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human…

— Zoe Leonard

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found…

— Garry Winogrand

My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events,…

— Dana Schutz

... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and…

— Richard Misrach

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about…

— Jessie Mueller

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men…

— Max Dupain

For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is…

— Alix Smith