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.
Bert Stern
[Photographer, b. 1929, Brooklyn, New York, d. 2013, New York.]
I think all my pictures are ideas, and they’re ideas made into images.
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?
Garry Winogrand
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, d. 1984, Tijuana, Mexico.]
I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of [my photographs]... Certainly while I’m working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
Robert Morris
[Artist and theorist, b. 1931, Kansas City, Missouri, lives in New York.]
There is probably no defense against the malevolent powers of the photograph to convert every visible aspect of the world into a static, consumable image.
Joachim Schmid
[Photographer and "professional looker", b. 1955, Balingen, Germany, lives in Berlin.]
I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.
Henry Adams
[Writer and historian, b. 1838, Boston, Massachusetts, d. 1918, Washington, D.C..]
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
David Levi Strauss
[Writer and critic, b. 1953, Junction City, Kansas, lives in New York.]
The first question must always be: Who is using this photograph, and to what end?
