Edward Steichen
[Photographer and curator, b. 1879, Luxembourg, Germany, d. 1973, West Redding, Connecticut.]
Dangerously close to snapshots but have collective impact. Maybe show group in show. Buy 3 at $10 each.
(1961 note on Garry Winogrand photographs by Steichen, then director of photography at Museum of Modern Art, New York.) 
Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
Because of my involvement with my photographs, it is difficult for me to really see them objectively. Talking about them is like talking about myself. The only real idea that I have about them is that they are essentially snapshots. For snapshots, I feel, often have an inherent simplicity and directness that I find beautiful. The roots of my photography are in this tradition.
Dieter Appelt
[Photographer and artist, b. 1935, Niemegk, Germany, lives in Berlin.]
A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure gives a form that never existed.
Lisette Model
[Photographer, b. 1906, Vienna, Austria, d. 1983, New York.]
[The snapshooter’s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well. It isn’t composed. It isn’t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.
Lee Friedlander
[Photographer, b. 1934, Aberdeen, Washington, lives in New York.]
The idea that the
snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I’m sure, confusing to others. It’s a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.
William Klein
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, lives in Paris.]
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.
Michael Lesy
[Writer and artist, b. 1945, Shaker Heights, Ohio, lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.]
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the
petite madeleine in Proust’s
In Search of Lost Time… but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.
Daido Moriyama
[Photographer, b. 1938, Ikeda-cho, Osaka, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
…I wish to take photographs freely, without technical restrictions. For example, I take most of my snapshots from a moving car, or without looking through the viewfinder when I am on foot. You might say I take photographs not only with my eyes, but with my entire body.
