Justine Kurland
[Photographer, b. 1969, Warsaw, New York, lives mostly on the road.]
There’s something political about creating a world that you want to exist.
Susan Meiselas
[Photographer, b. 1948, Baltimore, Maryland, lives in New York.]
You look at photographs that freeze time, but then time moves.
Bill Jay
[Photographer, writer, and curator, b. 1940, Maidenhead, England, d. 2009, Samara, Costa Rica.]
I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to…
Simon Norfolk
[Photographer, b. 1963, Lagos, Nigeria, lives in Brighton, England.]
[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good, obeys the universal laws of entropy. Heat cools, matter disintegrates, memories fade. If we let them.
Jean Baudrillard
[Writer and theorist, b. 1929, Reims, France, d. 2007, Paris.]
Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.
Annette Messager
[Artist, b. 1943, Berck-sur-Mer, France, lives in Paris.]
I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone’s face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it’s everybody. It’s not one person.
Dorothy Parker
[Writer, b. 1893, West End, New Jersey, d. 1967, New York.]
When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
Danny Lyon
[Photographer, b. 1942, New York, lives in Ulster County, New York.]
The pictures do not ask you to “help” these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.
