Boxes Quote by Susan Meiselas

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place…

— Errol Morris

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

— Diane Arbus

If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you…

— Eva Fuka

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

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

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are…

— John Berger

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

— Lee Friedlander

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

— Harry Callahan

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it,…

— Saul Leiter