History Quote by Philip Jones Griffiths

Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from…

— Bill Cunningham

There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter…

— Clarence John Laughlin

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 began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however,…

— Robert Adams

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was…

— A. D. Coleman

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

— Thomas Ruff

Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on assignment publish…

— David Alan Harvey

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you…

— Garry Winogrand

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite…

— Ian MacKaye

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

— Rene Burri

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about…

— Douglas Coupland