Minor White
[Photographer, writer, and theorist, b. 1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota, d. 1976, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
One should photograph objects, not only for what they are but for what else they are.
Imogen Cunningham
[Photographer, b. 1883, Portland, d. 1976, San Francisco.]
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Thomas Demand
[Photographer, b. 1964, Munich, Germany, lives in Los Angeles.]
I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.
Ken Domon
[Photographer, b. 1909, Sakata, Japan, d. 1990, Tokyo.]
We should pay attention to the screaming voice of the subject and simply operate the camera exactly according to its indications. When the camera is operated according to these indications, the direct connection between the camera and the subject appears before us.
Paul Graham
[Photographer, b. 1956, Stafford, England, lives in New York.]
...my photography doesn’t always fit into neat, coherent projects, so maybe I need to roll freeform around this world, unfettered, able to photograph whatever and whenever: the sky, my feet, the coffee in my cup, the flowers I just noticed, my friends and lovers, and, because it’s all my life, surely it will make sense? Perhaps.
Robert Rauschenberg
[Artist, b. 1925, Port Arthur, Texas, d. 2008, Captiva Island, Florida.]
I don’t want a picture to look like something it isn’t. I want it to look like something it is.
Tod Papageorge
[Photographer, b. 1940, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, lives in New Haven, Connecticut.]
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).
Grant Mudford
[Photographer, b. 1944, Sydney, Australia, lives in Los Angeles.]
I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.
