Photography Quote by Trevor Paglen

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography…

— Trevor Paglen

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also…

— Douglas Crimp

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for…

— Gisele Freund

Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon…

— Arthur Tress

Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let…

— Ernst Haas

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy…

— Eliot Porter

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.…

— Helmut Gernsheim

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,

— Jeff Wall