Begin again Quote by Lewis Baltz

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

— Dennis Oppenheim

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the…

— David Hockney

Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance…

— Helmut Gernsheim

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

— David Hockney

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it…

— John Szarkowski

[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning…

— Thomas Struth

“That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain that the…

— J.M. Coetzee

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

— Keith Carter

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that…

— Edouard Boubat

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is…

— Jean Baudrillard

We are splintering what was the 'camera' and its functionality - lens, sensors, and processing - into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and…

— Om Malik