Arena Quote by Sally Mann

Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I…

— Jeff Vespa

I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have…

— Lisette Model

I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer…

— Garry Winogrand

The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done…

— Lisette Model

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

— Gerhard Richter

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers…

— Tod Papageorge

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of…

— Fred Ritchin

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other…

— Joachim Schmid

It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures…

— David Burnett

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do…

— Vilém Flusser

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

— Lauren Beukes

All the photos you see on our blog are just family photos in the same way anybody else would do with their children. I…

— Nick Cannon