Believe Quote by William Klein

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news.…

— William Klein

I thought it would be a good idea to look at New York with this half-European, half-native eye and really do something to get…

— William Klein

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

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

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of…

— Fred Ritchin

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

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

— Arthur Rothstein

I was keen to challenge this vernacular as the role of the photojournalist was changing, and images were becoming urgent and more succinctly linguistic.…

— Michael Salu

I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way…

— John Pfahl

“Ever since, New York has existed for me simultaneously as a map to be learned and a place to aspire too--a city of things…

— Adam Gopnik

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale…

— Brendan Gill

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

— Binyavanga Wainaina