Below the surface Quote by Richard Avedon

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

— Ansel Adams

The camera photographs what's there.

— Jack Nicholson

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

— Garry Winogrand

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

— Christophe Agou

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

— Tino Sehgal

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

— David Hockney

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

— Garry Winogrand

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor…

— Mark Rothko

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is…

— Lee Friedlander

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

— David Hockney

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

— Garry Winogrand