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 Hardy
[Photographer, b. 1913, London, d. 1995, Oxted, England.]
Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
Roland Barthes
[Writer, critic, and theorist, b. 1915, Cherbourg, d. 1980, Paris.]
If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it.
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Wright Morris
[Writer and photographer, b. 1910, Central City, Nebraska, d. 1998, Mill Valley, California.]
In the anonymous photograph, the loss of the photographer often proves to be a gain. We see only the photograph.
Lev Manovich
[Artist, theorist, and critic, b. 1960, Moscow, lives in New York.]
Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.
Robert Smithson
[Artist, b. 1938, Rutherford, New Jersey, d. 1973, Amarillo, Texas.]
Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
[Physician, author, father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, b. 1809, Cambridge, Massachusetts, d. 1894, Boston, Massachusetts.]
[The Daguerreotype] has fixed the most fleeting of our illusions, that which the apostle and the philosopher and the poet have alike used as the type of instability and unreality. The photograph has completed the triumph, by making a sheet of paper reflect images like a mirror and hold them as a picture.
(1859)
