Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. … And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole. - Aaron Siskind
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.
- Beaumont Newhall
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
- George Bernard Shaw
Self Portrait, hotel room, Seaside, California. June 2007.
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There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas. - David Hurn
I want the viewers to be moved into the lives of the people that they are looking at, the visual experience is incredibly emotional.
-Paul Fusco
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.” - Jean Cocteau
“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”
- Oscar Wilde
“More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today. One common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation interpretation and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.” - Beaumont Newhall