Sandy Skoglund
[Photographer, b. 1946, Quincy, Massachusetts, lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.]
Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
Marcel Duchamp
[Artist, b. 1887, Blainville, France, d. 1968, Neilly-sur-Seine, France.]
Without glue—Make an assembly of ‘readymades’ balanced one on top of the other and photograph them.
(Proposal)
Luigi Ghirri
[Photographer, b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy, d. 1992, Reggio Emilia, Italy.]
Photography has become an opaque layer, thick with images that are superimposed on reality itself—the debris of our age…
Louis Stettner
[Photographer, b. 1922, Brooklyn, New York, d. 2016, Saint-Ouen, France.]
Brassaï showed me that it was possible to find something significant in photographing subjects in everyday life doing ordinary things by interpreting them in your own way and with your own personal vision.
Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
Taste and opinion cannot replace intelligence and knowledge.
Berenice Abbott
[Photographer, writer, teacher, b. 1898, Springfield, Ohio, d. 1991, Monson, Maine.]
There needs to be a friendly interpreter between science and the layman. I believe photography can be this spokesman.
Katy Grannan
[Photographer, b. 1969, Arlington, Virginia, lives in Berkeley, California.]
I’m not interested in illustration. I think that mystery is absolutely essential in both still photography and cinema.
Roger Ballen
[Photographer, b. 1950, New York, lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.]
[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.
