Philip Jones Griffiths
[Photojournalist, b. 1936, Rhuddian, Wales, d. 2008, London.]
Today, the photographer is sent off to illustrate the preconceptions, usually misconceptions, of the desk-bound editor—an editor biased not by any knowledge of the subject but by the pressure to conform to the standard view ordained by the powers that be. Any deviation from the ‘party line’ is rejected. We are probably the last generation that will accept the integrity of the photograph.
Geoffrey Batchen
[Photohistorian, b. 1956, Australia, lives in Wellington, New Zealand.]
Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous
National Geographic way of seeing.
Sarah Kember
[Writer and critic, lives in London.]
[The] transformative experience of the self based on an uncanny encounter with the real has been at the heart of our persistent (but irrational) faith in photography.
Vladimir Nabokov
[Writer, b. 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia, d. 1977, Montreux, Switzerland.]
...photographs of girl-children; some gaudy moth or butterfly, still alive, safely pinned to the wall.
Garry Winogrand
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, d. 1984, Tijuana, Mexico.]
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
Bea Nettles
[Photographer, b. 1946, Gainesville, Florida, lives in Asheville, North Carolina.]
In my images I am attempting to make fantasies visible.
Les Krims
[Photographer, b. 1943, Brooklyn, New York, lives in Buffalo, New York.]
It is possible to create any picture a person imagines.
Brett Weston
[Photographer, b. 1911, Los Angeles, d. 1993, Kona, Hawaii.]
People are under the illusion that it's easy... Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.
