Joel Meyerowitz
[Photographer, b. 1938, New York, lives in New York.]
I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it’s got lots of accounting going on in it—stones and buildings and trees and air—but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.
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.
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.
Kyoichi Sawada
[Photographer, b. 1936, Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, d. 1970, Cambodia.]
A photograph is viewed by many but it also sees those who view it. A photo is extraordinary. Each carries its own fate.
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.
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?
Daido Moriyama
[Photographer, b. 1938, Ikeda-cho, Osaka, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
For me photographs are taken in the eye before you’ve even thought what they mean. That’s the reality I’m interested in capturing.
Franz Kafka
[Writer, b. 1883, Prague, d. 1924, Prague.]
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
