Eugene Richards
[Photographer, b. 1944, Dorchester, Massachusetts, lives in New York.]
It’s a process of getting to know people. That’s what photography is to me. It’s about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.
Barbara Kruger
[Artist, b. 1945, Newark, New Jersey, lives in New York.]
Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
Roland Barthes
[Writer, critic, and theorist, b. 1915, Cherbourg, d. 1980, Paris.]
Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
Wynn Bullock
[Photographer, b. 1902, Chicago, Illinois, d. 1975, Monterey, California.]
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
Ezra Stoller
[Photographer, b. 1915, Chicago, Illinois, d. 2004, Williamstown, Massachusetts.]
... photography is just a medium. It’s like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn’t interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.
Marc Riboud
[Photographer, b. 1923, St.-Genis-Laval, France, d. 2016, Paris.]
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
Shomei Tomatsu
[Photographer, b. 1930, Nagoya, Japan, d. 2012, Okinawa, Japan.]
In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.
Sally Mann
[Photographer, b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia, lives in Lexington.]
There’s a kind of reverence that goes along with doing this process. You have to pay your dues to the photo gods.