Answers Quote by Rebecca Solnit

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

Photography is a generous medium…

— Lee Friedlander

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

— Nikki S. Lee

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would…

— Abelardo Morell

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

— Berenice Abbott

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely…

— Paul Strand

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

— Mario Testino

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

— Walter Rosenblum

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson