Anaïs Nin
[Writer, b. 1903, Neuilly, France, d. 1977, Los Angeles.]
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
August Sander
[Photographer, b. 1876, Herdorf, Germany, d. 1964, Cologne.]
I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves. The portrait is your mirror.
Anthony Hernandez
[Photographer, b. 1947, Los Angeles, lives in Los Angeles.]
I love the idea that I’m not there [in the photographs]. But I am there.
Alec Soth
[Photographer, b. 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.]
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description—a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer’s reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.
Dennis Oppenheim
[Artist, b. 1938, Electric City, Washington, d. 2011, New York.]
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
Geoff Dyer
[Writer and critic, b. 1958, Cheltenham, England, lives in London.]
This is the eternal question about photography, isn’t it: the old who by/what of? Is a photograph defined by what’s in it or by who took it? Well, a bit of both, obviously.
Alec Soth
[Photographer, b. 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.]
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description—a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer’s reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.
Minor White
[Photographer, writer, and theorist, b. 1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota, d. 1976, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
When the photograph is the mirror of the man, and the man is the mirror of the world, then the Spirit might take over.
