Moving Quote by Martin Munkacsi

I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

— Minor White

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts -…

— Maggie Steber

When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered…

— Douglas Coupland

I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality.…

— Keith Shackleton

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers…

— Tod Papageorge

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s…

— Roy DeCarava

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of…

— Fred Ritchin

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

— Minor White