Giséle Freund
[Photographer, b. 1908, Berlin, Germany, d. 2000, Paris, France.]
Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren’t any subjects ‘done to death’.
Pieter Hugo
[Photographer, b. 1976, Johannesburg, South Africa, lives in Cape Town.]
I’m quite a light person if you meet me but I’m quite heavy in my work, and in the process of making the picture you imbue that with a sense of gravity and urgency.
A.D. Coleman
[Critic and writer, b. 1943, New York, lives in New York.]
It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.
Richard Avedon
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 2004, San Antonio, Texas.]
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
Corinne Day
[Photographer, b. 1962, Ealing, West London, d. 2010, Denham, England.]
I try to capture something from my subjects that’s real. It’s the eyes that tell that.
Tee Corinne
[Photographer and artist, b. 1943, St. Petersburg, Florida, d. 2006, Sunny Valley, Oregon.]
The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are help us visualize who we can be.
Edward Said
[Writer and critic, b. 1935, Jerusalem, British-ruled Palestine, d. 2003, New York.]
What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn’t permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.
Bruce Davidson
[Photographer, b. 1933, Oak Park, Illinois, lives in New York.]
Most young boys have a buddy. I had a camera. I was pretty much a loner, and I was doomed to failure because I wasn’t interested in anything other than taking pictures and developing them in my darkroom.
