Contribution Quote by Paul Strand

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it…

— Beaumont Newhall

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

— John Szarkowski

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In…

— Berenice Abbott

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

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

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

— Bill Jay

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

— Cornell Capa

Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know,…

— Emmet Gowin

Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

— Joan Fontcuberta

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof…

— Ernst Haas

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

— Clarence John Laughlin