Marc Riboud
[Photographer, b. 1923, St.-Genis-Laval, France, d. 2016, Paris.]
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
[Photographer, b. 1902, Mexico City, d. 2002, Mexico City.]
Telemann once said something interesting. He said that every musician must be whistling something at all times. Well, I say that every photographer must be living at all times.
Edward Weston
[Photographer, b. 1886, Highland Park, Illinois, d. 1958, Wildcat Hill, California.]
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
Dorothea Lange
[Photographer, b. 1895, Hoboken, New Jersey, d. 1965, San Francisco.]
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
Minor White
[Photographer, writer, and theorist, b. 1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota, d. 1976, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
I have discovered camera is both a way of life and not enough to live by.
John Gutmann
[Photographer, b. 1905, Breslau, Germany, (now Wroclaw, Poland), d. 1998, San Francisco, California.]
I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life.
Thomas Demand
[Photographer, b. 1964, Munich, Germany, lives in Los Angeles.]
[Cameras] start to interpret life to us, which is a tautological circle, and I wonder how long you can feed yourself with yourself.
Jerry Uelsmann
[Photographer, b. 1934, Detroit, Michigan, lives in Gainesville, Florida.]
I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.
