Nan Goldin
[Photographer, b. 1953, Washington, D.C., lives in New York and Paris.]
During the two years my friends and I lived together I took pictures of them almost daily. When we picked up the 3 x 5 snapshots at the corner drugstore there was always a competition to see who had the most pictures of themselves in the pile.
Eve Arnold
[Photographer, b. 1913, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 2011, London.]
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
Helmut Newton
[Photographer, b. 1920, Berlin, d. 2004, Los Angeles.]
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
James Agee
[Writer, b. 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee, d. 1955, New York.]
It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an association of human beings... drawn together through need and chance and for profit into a company, an organ of photojournalism, to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings... for the purpose of parading the nakedness, disadvantage and humiliation of these lives before another group of human beings in the name of science of ‘honest journalism’.
