Edouard Boubat
[Photographer, b. 1923, Paris, France, d. 1999, Paris.]
In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it’s the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
In some way I would suggest that photography is not so much an art as a meta-art. It’s an art which devours other art... photography takes the whole world as its subject, cannibalizes all art forms, and converts them into images. And in that sense it seems a peculiarly modern art form.
David Levi Strauss
[Writer and critic, b. 1953, Junction City, Kansas, lives in New York.]
Photographic images used to be about the trace. Digital images are about the
flow.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
[Artist, b. 1953, Hartford, Connecticut, lives in New York.]
[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.
Garry Winogrand
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, d. 1984, Tijuana, Mexico.]
What photograph isn’t a still life?
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.
George Tice
[Photographer, b. 1938, Newark, New Jersey, lives in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey.]
Photography is whatever we want it to be. It teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish.
Gregory Crewdson
[Photographer, b. 1962, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New Haven Connecticut.]
Photography is a lonely endeavor, and I think all photographers are in one way or another drawn to the medium by kind of an alienated viewpoint.
