Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Andy Warhol
[Artist, b. 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 1987, New York.]
I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.
Leonard Freed
[Photographer, b. 1929, Brooklyn, New York, d. 2006, Garrison, New York.]
Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.
Robert Morris
[Artist and theorist, b. 1931, Kansas City, Missouri, lives in New York.]
There is probably no defense against the malevolent powers of the photograph to convert every visible aspect of the world into a static, consumable image.
Franz Kafka
[Writer, b. 1883, Prague, d. 1924, Prague.]
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds.
Bill Jay
[Photographer, writer, and curator, b. 1940, Maidenhead, England, d. 2009, Samara, Costa Rica.]
I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to…
André Breton
[Artist, writer, editor, and critic, b. 1896, Tinchebray, France, d. 1966, Paris, France.]
Radios? Fine. Syphilis? If you like. Photography? I don’t see any reason why not.
(Manifesto of Surrealism, 1924)
