John Loengard
[Photographer, editor, and critic, b. 1934, New York, lives in New York.]
Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture’s true beauty.
Harry Callahan
[Photographer, b. 1912, Detroit, Michigan, d. 1999, Atlanta, Georgia.]
I very rarely start photographing immediately. I like to walk and walk and walk. And the beach was nice because I can walk and unwind and then after a while start photographing. You can go to the sea where it’s beautiful and you are a part of it and I guess you want to let somebody else know about it. I think I must have felt the same way with Eleanor.
Paul Outerbridge
[Photographer, b. 1896, New York, d. 1958, Laguna Beach, California.]
Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become... .
Dave Hickey
[Writer and critic, b. 1939, rural Texas, lives in Los Angeles.]
In images,… beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.
Charis Wilson
[Model, b. 1914, San Francisco, d. 2009, Santa Cruz, California.]
I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward [Weston] had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.
Oscar Wilde
[Writer, b. 1854, Dublin, d. 1900, Paris, France.]
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
Jo Ann Callis
[Photographer, b. 1940, Cincinnati, Ohio, lives in Los Angeles.]
I consistently want to make things that satisfy my sense of beauty.
Nikki S. Lee
[Photographer, b. 1970, Kye-Chang, Korea, lives in New York.]
As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it’s so deep—it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.
