Decree Quote by Roland Barthes

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

— John Szarkowski

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

— Bill Jay

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

— Minor White

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

— Nigel Dennis

“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to…

— Geoff Dyer

“To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see…

— Anonymous

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

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

By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

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

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents…

— Eugene Richards

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting…

— Robert Adams