#photograph

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#hard #make #photographer #really

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being. ↗

— Vilém Flusser

#ethics #photograph #photography #art

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything. ↗

— Ruth Bernhard

#art

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy. ↗

— Valaida Fullwood

#culture #heritage #history #inspirational #philanthropy

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#photography #portraits #beauty

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#century #colour #direct #facing #last

The photographic image... is a message without a code. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#image #message #photographic #without

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ↗

— David Amram

#five #french #french horn #horn #issue

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#invents #past #person #photographer #records

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#photography #art