Robert Mapplethorpe
[Photographer, b. 1946, Floral Park, Long Island, d. 1989, Boston, Massachusetts.]
I wasn’t setting out to make a statement, that isn’t the way I work. The statement grows out of what I do.
Abbas (Abbas Attar)
[Photographer, b. 1944, Iran, d. 2018, Paris.]
Now I don’t just make stories about what’s happening. I’m making stories about my way of seeing what’s happening.
Sebastião Salgado
[Photographer, b. 1944, Aimores, Minas Gerias, Brazil, lives in Paris and Brazil.]
I’m not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it’s not an object, I work in history, I’m a storyteller.
Robert Doisneau
[Photographer, b. 1912, Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, France, d. 1994, Montrouge, France.]
I’m not that sure of myself. I start off with a story. I wait for the moment that fills me with wonder. Or I wait for some kind of miracle that that will always happen.
Henry James
[Writer, b. 1843, New York, d. 1916, Rye, England.]
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better the problem is solved.
Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
I use photography to help me explain my experiences to myself.
Cindy Sherman
[Artist, b. 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, lives in New York.]
The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
Robbert Flick
[Photographer, b. 1939, Amersfoort, Holland, lives in Los Angeles, California.]
The specifics of location are immaterial; all photographs after all are fictive narratives that play on memory and potential empathy.
