- Edward Said
- Jason Salavon
- Sebastião Salgado
- David Salle
- Erich Salomon
- Lucas Samaras
- August Sander
- George Santayana
- Luc Sante
- José Saramago
- Lise Sarfati
- Jean Paul Sartre
- Jan Saudek
- Andrew Savulich
- Kyoichi Sawada
- Peter Schjeldahl
- Joachim Schmid
- Martin Schoeller
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- W.G Sebald
- Allan Sekula
- Richard Serra
- Andres Serrano
- John Sexton
- Ben Shahn
- George Bernard Shaw
- Charles Sheeler
- Cindy Sherman
- Stephen Shore
- Julius Shulman
- Malick Sidibé
- Jeanloup Sieff
- Laurie Simmons
- Paul Simon
- Taryn Simon
- Chip Simons
- Homer Simpson
- Lorna Simpson
- Raghubir Singh
- Art Sinsabaugh
- Ingrid Sischy
- Aaron Siskind
- Sandy Skoglund
- Anna Nicole Smith
- Henry Holmes Smith
- Patti Smith
- W. Eugene Smith
- Robert Smithson
- Michael Snow
- Lord Snowdon
- Rebecca Solnit
- Rosalind Fox Solomon
- Abigail Solomon-Godeau
- Frederick Sommer
- Susan Sontag
- Mario Sorrenti
- Alec Soth
- Albert Sands Southworth
- Michael Spano
- Jo Spence
- Charles, Earl Spencer
- Stephen Spender
- Annie Sprinkle
- Peter Stackpole
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- Josef Sudek
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- Larry Sultan
- Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
- John Szarkowski
Wallace Stevens
[Poet, b. 1879, Reading, Pennsylvania, d. 1955, Hartford, Connecticut.]
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
Reality as a thing seen by the mind,
Not that which is but that which is apprehended.
(Cited as applicable to photography by critic Geoff Dyer)
Not that which is but that which is apprehended.
(Cited as applicable to photography by critic Geoff Dyer)