Tim Page
[Photographer, b. 1944, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, lives in Brisbane, Australia.]
The power of photography and the media is less and less cause the attention of the reader is less and less. Who cares when they just flip the page and see a skateboard or something they want to buy?
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
[Photographer, b. 1889, Brassó, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), d. 1984, Eze, Alpes-Maritimes, France.]
There is always the danger of prostituting one’s gifts simply in order to live and to survive. The most difficult thing in life is to make money doing what you like to do.
Walker Evans
[Photographer, b. 1903, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1975, New Haven, Connecticut.]
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.
Jeff Wall
[Photographer, b. 1946, Vancouver, Canada, lives in Vancouver.]
It is astonishing to remember that important art-photographs could be purchased for under $100 not only in 1950 but in 1960.
Anonymous
[lived or lives somewhere.]
Never show a customer two prints of different density. He will ask you to print a third with a density between the two.
Oscar Rejlander
[Photographer, b. 1817, Sweden, d. 1875, London.]
I am tired of photography-for-the-public, particularly composite photographs, for there can be no gain and there is no honour, only cavil and misrepresentation.
(1859)
Josef Koudelka
[Photographer, b. 1938, Biskovice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, lives in Paris.]
It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It’s important that I take them. There were periods where I didn’t have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: “Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.” I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: “Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,” I would have refused.
Alfred Stieglitz
[Photographer and curator, b. 1864, Hoboken, New Jersey, d. 1946, New York.]
I hate to look at the future and see myself as a dried up teacher of photography.
(On being forced to earn money teaching at Columbia and the Brooklyn Museum, 1908)
