Firsts Quote by Minor White

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to…

— Sam Abell

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

— Sid Grossman

A photograph can look any way.

— Garry Winogrand

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the…

— Sam Abell

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there…

— Dorothea Lange

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

— Errol Morris

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

— Nelson Shanks

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by…

— Dawoud Bey

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

— Susan Sontag

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag