Comparison Quote by Stephen Shore

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness…

— Stephen Shore

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All…

— Joan Didion

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented…

— Neil Postman

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

— Marshall McLuhan

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not…

— Garry Winogrand

One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going…

— Grant Mudford

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you…

— Galen Rowell

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Photographers are always imposing

— Susan Sontag

“I've always felt that the formal structure of a photo, its composition, was just as important as tje subject itself... You have to eliminate…

— Brassaï

“Photography can be an intimate experience between the photographer and his subject. But there are so many ways to express the connection without a…

— S.H. Kolee