Cameras Quote by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it…

— John Berger

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

— Rudolf Arnheim

All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are…

— John Paul Caponigro

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

— Clarence John Laughlin

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

— Garry Winogrand

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

— Martha Rosler

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

— Sebastian Smee