Catherine Opie
[Photographer, b. 1961, Sandusky, Ohio, lives in Los Angeles.]
I wanted to push the whole realm of beauty and elegance, but also to make people scared out of their wits.
William Wegman
[Artist, b. 1943, Holyoke, Massachusetts, lives in New York.]
I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.
Alec Soth
[Photographer, b. 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.]
There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.
Andy Warhol
[Artist, b. 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 1987, New York.]
I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.
Ernst Haas
[Photographer, b. 1921, Vienna, Austria, d. 1986, New York City.]
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.
Richard Prince
[Artist, b. 1949, Panama Canal Zone, lives in New York.]
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
Larry Clark
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1943, Tulsa, Oklahoma, lives in New York.]
The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make… It’s really a psychological need. I’m just jerked around by it. I’m pulled by it.
Sandy Skoglund
[Photographer, b. 1946, Quincy, Massachusetts, lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.]
The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.
