Susie Linfield
[Writer and critic, New York, lives in New York.]
...we’re still not at all sure what photography is: is it news, art, entertainment, documentation, science, or surveillance? It tends to blur all those boundaries, which is exciting, but also bewildering and confusing.
Robert Doisneau
[Photographer, b. 1912, Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, France, d. 1994, Montrouge, France.]
You know, they always say that the photographer is “a hunter of images.” That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it’s virile, acquired power. Actually though, it isn’t that. We are really fishermen with hooks and lines.
Annie Leibovitz
[Photographer, b. 1949, Westbury, Connecticut, lives in New York.]
One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.
John Baldessari
[Artist, b. 1931, National City, California, lives in Venice, California.]
I have no particular allegiance to photography, other than it’s quick.
Marius de Zayas
[Artist, b. 1880, Veracruz, Mexico, d. 1961, Greenwich, Connecticut.]
Photography is beginning to be photography, for until now it has only been art.
(1923)
Alec Soth
[Photographer, b. 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.]
Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
[Writer and theorist, b. 1947, New York, lives in Santa Barbara, California.]
In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
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?
