Communication Quote by Richard Misrach

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.…

— Helmut Gernsheim

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

— Ansel Adams

I was keen to challenge this vernacular as the role of the photojournalist was changing, and images were becoming urgent and more succinctly linguistic.…

— Michael Salu

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem…

— Sarah Charlesworth

The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the…

— William J. Mitchell

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human…

— Zoe Leonard

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

— Arthur Rothstein

“As yet, though we live in a culture in which images are the dominant currency of communication, we have been unable to form an…

— Scott Bukatman

“It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good…

— Roland Barthes

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that…

— Trevor Paglen

I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography…

— Michael Kenna

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes,…

— Ken Burns