Emmet Gowin
[Photographer, b. 1941, Danville, Virginia, lives in Princeton, New Jersey.]
The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don’t know, or already know and should take seriously.
Ralph Steiner
[Photographer, b. 1899, Cleveland, Ohio, d. 1986, Hanover, New Hampshire.]
The thing to bear in mind in ‘reading’ photographs is that none of them can tell the full truth.
Andy Warhol
[Artist, b. 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 1987, New York.]
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes. Even when the people in it do.
Olafur Eliasson
[Artist, b. 1967, Copenhagen, Denmark, lives in Berlin, Germany.]
Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.
Pieter Hugo
[Photographer, b. 1976, Johannesburg, South Africa, lives in Cape Town.]
[Photography’s] true seduction lies in its foot in reality. It still has the pretense of being a quasi-document.
David Levi Strauss
[Writer and critic, b. 1953, Junction City, Kansas, lives in New York.]
The first question must always be: Who is using this photograph, and to what end?
Michael Light
[Photographer, b. 1963, Florida, lives in San Francisco.]
Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They’re beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time.
Michael Spano
[Photographer, b. 1949, Bronx, New York, lives in Brooklyn, New York.]
All photographs are manipulated—reality doesn’t look like a photograph anyway.