Awareness Quote by W. Eugene Smith

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

— William Albert Allard

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more…

— Alison Jackson

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography helps people to see.

— Berenice Abbott

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

— Paul Strand

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

— Francesca Woodman

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 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 photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams