Access Quote by Lisa Immordino Vreeland

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is…

— Elisa Kreisinger

How lucky we are to be able to see and hear so much of our history over the past century as it was happening.…

— Jerry Springer

I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage but give…

— Gabe Polsky

I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the…

— Jamel Shabazz

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in…

— Richard Gere

I think we're at a really critical time in terms of art, and I think it's totally possible to have a project that is…

— Asia Kate Dillon

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and…

— Richard Misrach

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition…

— Ben Shahn

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was…

— Martin Parr

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

— Jerry Saltz

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

— Janet Malcolm

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world…

— Matthew Barney