Ancient Quote by Louis Aragon

One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going…

— Grant Mudford

[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement…

— Walter Benjamin

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

— Arthur Erickson

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good…

— Robert Adams

We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo…

— Stuart Franklin

I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it…

— Idris Khan

As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply…

— George A Tice

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that…

— Frank Gohlke

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their…

— Susan Sontag