Garry Winogrand
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, d. 1984, Tijuana, Mexico.]
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
Annie Leibovitz
[Photographer, b. 1949, Westbury, Connecticut, lives in New York.]
People buy ideas, they don’t buy photographs.
Sophie Ristelhueber
[Photographer, b. 1949, Paris, lives in Paris.]
We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything,
yet we see nothing.
Robert Heinecken
[Photographer, b. 1931, Denver, d. 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico.]
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Jeff Wall
[Photographer, b. 1946, Vancouver, Canada, lives in Vancouver.]
I like photographs that don’t look altogether the way photographs are supposed to look. We don’t really know how photographs are “supposed to look.”
Raymond Depardon
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1942, Villefranche-sur-Saône, France, lives in Paris.]
I don’t regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I’d rather have a good photograph of my father.
Martin Parr
[Photographer, b. 1952, Epson, Surrey, England, lives in Bristol and London, England.]
The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.
Luigi Ghirri
[Photographer, b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy, d. 1992, Reggio Emilia, Italy.]
Paradoxically perhaps… the moment a photographer thinks he is showing us reality is the moment when it is most distant.
