Astronaut Quote by Michael Light

The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves…

— William Boyd

All photographs are authored, but they just claim non-authorship.

— RaMell Ross

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.…

— Peter C Bunnell

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

— Lewis Baltz

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

— Sebastiao Salgado

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism…

— Burt Rutan

What the camera has done historically is erase authorship and produce - regardless of whether or not it's intended to be - what seems…

— RaMell Ross

There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will…

— Michael Kenna

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

— Richard Avedon

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel…

— Robert Frank