Doe Quote by Sam Abell

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the…

— Sam Abell

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

— Minor White

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

— Nelson Shanks

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

— Lisette Model

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in…

— Steve McCurry

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

— Richard Avedon

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

— W. Eugene Smith

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

— Errol Morris

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

— Emmet Gowin