Anthropologists Quote by Margaret Mead

I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has…

— Ari Marcopoulos

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy…

— Eliot Porter

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry.…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

— Beaumont Newhall

I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a…

— Michael Kenna

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

— Paul Caponigro

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally…

— Susan Meiselas

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP,…

— Lisette Model

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

— Margaret Mead

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.…

— Helmut Gernsheim