Begin again Quote by W. Eugene Smith

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

— W. Eugene Smith

A lot of the positive things that I would read and hear in the media, I would ignore. I would pay more attention to…

— Jason Taylor

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may…

— Richard Avedon

My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal…

— Jerome Liebling

Nine years old, I became the victim of war. I didn't like that picture at all. I felt like, why he took my picture,…

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of…

— Lorna Simpson

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change…

— Jamel Shabazz

My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant…

— Alfred Stieglitz

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all…

— Andy Grundberg

My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs…

— W. Eugene Smith

Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally…

— Stuart Franklin