Robert Heinecken
[Photographer, b. 1931, Denver, d. 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico.]
The photograph... is not a
picture of something, but is an
object about something.
Daido Moriyama
[Photographer, b. 1938, Ikeda-cho, Osaka, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
[My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one day perceive an infinite number of images, and some of them are focused upon, others are barely seen out of the corner of one’s eye.
Ed Ruscha
[Artist, b. 1937, Omaha, Nebraska, lives in Los Angeles.]
Yes, there’s a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it’s got real value.
Eddie Adams
[Photojournalist, b. 1933, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, d. 2004, New York.]
If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that’s a good picture.
Richard Misrach
[Photographer, b. 1949, Los Angeles, lives in San Francisco.]
I love the fact that a photograph is always open to interpretation—there is no fixed meaning.
Franz Kafka
[Writer, b. 1883, Prague, d. 1924, Prague.]
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
Richard Avedon
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 2004, San Antonio, Texas.]
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is, how would you say, well, the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
Janet Malcolm
[Writer, b. 1934, Prague, Czechoslovakia, lives in New York.]
Are pictures there for anyone to “take”? Or are they made by the photographer?
