Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
I’m really skeptical about the idea of photographic history. Photography needs to be seen in a much broader context, certainly within the context of art, and in even broader social and cultural contexts beyond that.
Jean François Millet
[Artist, b. 1814, Gruchy, France, d. 1875, Barbizon, France.]
A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.
Helmut Newton
[Photographer, b. 1920, Berlin, d. 2004, Los Angeles.]
Some people’s photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
Dennis Oppenheim
[Artist, b. 1938, Electric City, Washington, d. 2011, New York.]
You can’t understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs.
(On exhibitions of his “earthworks” and land art pieces.)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
[Artist, photographer, designer, and teacher, b. 1895, Bacsbarsod, Hungary, d. 1946, Chicago, Illinois.]
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
Jean-Marc Bustamante
[Photographer, b. 1952, Toulouse, France, lives in Paris.]
I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
Photography, though not an art form in itself, has the peculiar capacity to turn all its subjects into works of art.
Vik Muniz
[Artist, b. 1961, Sao Paulo, Brazil, lives in New York.]
Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.
