Fashion photography Quote by William A. Ewing

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable…

— Jerry Saltz

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

— Susan Sontag

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

— Jean-Luc Godard

“With the willingness of Time-Life and a team of historians, forensic anthropologists, photographic experts, and cutting edge technology, the means are at hand to…

— Lawrence Verria

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

— Berenice Abbott

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have…

— Brassai

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of…

— Joel Sternfeld

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.

— Peter Lindbergh

The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a…

— Caleb Deschanel

“All the pictures in this book are authentic, vintage found photographs, and with the exception of a few that have undergone minimal postprocessing, they…

— Ransom Riggs

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

— Robert Adams