Stephen Shore
[Photographer, b. 1947, New York, lives in New York.]
A photograph has edges, the world does not.
Henry Wessel
[Photographer, b. 1942, Teaneck, New Jersey, lives in San Francisco.]
In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That’s all you have.
Douglas Coupland
[Writer, b. 1961, Baden-Söllingen, Germany, lives in Vancouver, Canada.]
When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
John Baldessari
[Artist, b. 1931, National City, California, lives in Venice, California.]
Probably I was never going to get out of National City, so I was going to show people what it’s like, to make art out of where I lived without glamorizing it, and with the idea that truth is beautiful, no matter how ugly it is. I drove around in the car shooting my pictures from the window, because I didn’t want to make the place more beautiful by setting my camera up with a tripod, getting the right light, and just the right composition. I wanted it just the way it is.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
Geometry is fundamental, but one must not think about it.
Anders Petersen
[Photographer, b. 1944, Solna, Sweden, lives in Stockholm.]
I don’t care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.
Susan Meiselas
[Photographer, b. 1948, Baltimore, Maryland, lives in New York.]
For a long time I’ve lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame…
Doug Aitken
[Artist, b. 1968, Redondo Beach, California, lives in Los Angeles.]
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.
