James Welling
[Photographer, b. 1951, Hartford, Connecticut, lives in Los Angeles.]
It’s not that I don’t care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.
Barbara Ess
[Photographer, b. 1948, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New York.]
I try to photograph what can’t be photographed—psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.
Imogen Cunningham
[Photographer, b. 1883, Portland, d. 1976, San Francisco.]
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Harry Callahan
[Photographer, b. 1912, Detroit, Michigan, d. 1999, Atlanta, Georgia.]
If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.
Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
Everything is related to photography, because it all has to be photographed in the end.
William Klein
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, lives in Paris.]
I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
In photographing dwarfs, you don’t get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.
(On photographs by Diane Arbus)
Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
Everything is subject for photography, especially the difficult things of our lives: anxiety, childhood hurts, lust, nightmares. The things that cannot be seen are the most significant. They cannot be photographed, only suggested.
