Phil Stern
[Photographer, b. 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 2014, Los Angeles.]
If you’re lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven’t captured that much experience, have you?
Jean Baudrillard
[Writer and theorist, b. 1929, Reims, France, d. 2007, Paris.]
When calculation and digital win out over form, when software wins out over the eye, can we still speak of photography?
Diane Arbus
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 1971, New York.]
I am not ghoulish, am I? It wouldn’t anyway have been better to turn away, would it?
Eva Rubinstein
[Photographer, b. 1933, Buenos Aires, Argentina, lives in New York and Paris.]
What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.
Marc Riboud
[Photographer, b. 1923, St.-Genis-Laval, France, d. 2016, Paris.]
I’m often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.
Abelardo Morell
[b. 1948, Havana, Cuba, lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.]
There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It’s getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn’t tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.
Henry David Thoreau
[Writer and practical philosopher, b. 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, d. 1862, Concord.]
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Chuck Close
[Artist, b. 1940, Monroe, Washington, lives in New York.]
I’ve always thought that problem solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
