On Photography: W. Eugene Smith, 1918-1978
“Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the
“Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the
“I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.”
“I am at war with the obvious.” -William Eggleston The godfather of color photography The first major museum to mount an exhibition of color photographs
“Only photography has been able to divide human life. into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.” –Eadweard
“I kind of hated modeling, but somehow I did it for 10 years. I was not really the exhibitionist type. It’s hard psychologically to be
“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.” – Garry Winogrand Garry Winogrand “street” photographer Garry Winogrand’s interest
“Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.” – Andreas Gursky Fine art photographer Andreas Gursky
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” ― Robert Frank Robert Frank is best known for his 83 black and white documentary photographs
“Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel – you get on, you
“If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say ‘secrets.’ As a child, I always
“It doesn’t matter if you’re photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you’re photographing the king of Morocco. You have the same sympathetic
“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in