Philip-Lorca diCorcia
[Artist, b. 1953, Hartford, Connecticut, lives in New York.]
Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.
Werner Herzog
[Filmmaker, b. 1942, Sachrang, Germany, lives in Munich and Los Angeles.]
We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
Camille Paglia
[Writer, b. 1947, Endicott, New York, lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.]
Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick’s epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.
John Berger
[Writer and critic, b. 1926, London, d. 2017, Paris.]
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
Richard Misrach
[Photographer, b. 1949, Los Angeles, lives in San Francisco.]
I love the fact that a photograph is always open to interpretation—there is no fixed meaning.
John Divola
[Photographer, b. 1949, Los Angeles, lives in Los Angeles.]
I want things to be dumb and obvious and flat-footed, but to address the most ambitious possible iconography.
Daido Moriyama
[Photographer, b. 1938, Ikeda-cho, Osaka, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.
