Tod Papageorge
[Photographer, b. 1940, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, lives in New Haven, Connecticut.]
If your pictures are not good enough, you aren’t reading enough.
George W. Bush
[Politician, b. 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, lives in Dallas, Texas.]
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
Wright Morris
[Writer and photographer, b. 1910, Central City, Nebraska, d. 1998, Mill Valley, California.]
The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.
Max Pam
[Photographer, b. 1949, Melbourne, Australia, lives in Perth, Australia.]
Photography’s about the surface, what’s happening at the top of the sea. Literature’s about all the stuff below.
Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.
Charles Bukowski
[Writer, b. 1920, Andernach, Germany, d. 1994, San Pedro, California.]
I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
John Baldessari
[Artist, b. 1931, National City, California, lives in Venice, California.]
One of the things that compels me is I can’t prioritize a word over an image. It’s that constant state of not being able to pick or to say that this is more important than that. They’re both important.
Tod Papageorge
[Photographer, b. 1940, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, lives in New Haven, Connecticut.]
I believe that the (distorting) “mirror” which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.
