Bears Quote by Rosalind E. Krauss

... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something…

— Susan Sontag

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph…

— John Sexton

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that…

— Minor White

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment…

— David Hurn

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

— Bill Jay

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman