Attention Quote by Trevor Paglen

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

— Errol Morris

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

Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a…

— Jack Welpott

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around…

— Peter Lindbergh

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

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had…

— Saul Leiter

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there…

— Fred Ritchin

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

— Saul Leiter

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to…

— Sam Abell

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

— Sid Grossman