Jack Welpott
[Photographer, b. 1923, Kansas City, Missouri, d. 2007, Greenbrae, California.]
I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.
Susan Meiselas
[Photographer, b. 1948, Baltimore, Maryland, lives in New York.]
We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.
Wynn Bullock
[Photographer, b. 1902, Chicago, Illinois, d. 1975, Monterey, California.]
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded.
Susie Linfield
[Writer and critic, New York, lives in New York.]
The best photographic portraits, like the best painted portraits, present us not with biographical information but with a soul.
Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
[Photographer, b. 1889, Brassó, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), d. 1984, Eze, Alpes-Maritimes, France.]
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.
Peter Galassi
[Curator and writer, b. 1951, Washington, D.C., lives in New York.]
...photography is equally capable of recording everything and revealing nothing.
(On portraits by Thomas Ruff)
