Ezra Stoller
[Photographer, b. 1915, Chicago, Illinois, d. 2004, Williamstown, Massachusetts.]
My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.
John Szarkowski
[Curator, critic, historian, and photographer, b. 1925, Ashland, Wisconsin, d. 2007, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.]
When pictures have a great deal of information, that information has to have a shape of its own, even a shapeliness.
Robert Adams
[Photographer and writer, b. 1937, Orange, New Jersey, lives in Astoria, Oregon.]
I suppose I usually work in units of pictures because I try to reach a diverse audience, and because I know, having lived on the edge of the world, how important books can be. I learned to photograph mostly by studying books, and I try now to keep up through books.
Deborah Turbeville
[Photographer, b. 1932, Medford, Massachusetts, d. 2013, New York.]
In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer… it’s some people’s quarrel with my work and others’ fascination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
[Philosopher, b. 1889, Vienna, Austria, d. 1951, Cambridge, England.]
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
Shomei Tomatsu
[Photographer, b. 1930, Nagoya, Japan, d. 2012, Okinawa, Japan.]
I have embarked on a nameless sea of chaos that is neither America nor Japan. It is a global sea, and we all float there.
Bruce Gilden
[Photographer, b. 1946, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New York.]
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
[Writer, b. 1804, Salem, Massachusetts, d. 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire.]
[I wish] there was something in the intellectual world analogous to the Daguerreotype... in the visible—something which should print off our deepest, subtlest, and delicatest thoughts and feelings, as minutely and accurately as the above-mentioned instrument paints the various aspects of Nature.
(1839)
