Ruth Bernhard
[Photographer, b. 1905, Berlin, d. 2006, San Francisco.]
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.
Ilse Bing
[Photographer, b. 1899, Frankfurt, Germany, d. 1998, New York.]
When I was a little girl, children were looked upon as, “not yet”—something not yet perfect. I resented this approach toward me. But I was no fighter, and I retreated into my own world. This world was so colorful and so rich that I wanted never to become a grown-up.
Edward Weston
[Photographer, b. 1886, Highland Park, Illinois, d. 1958, Wildcat Hill, California.]
Anything that excites me for any reason I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Sophie Ristelhueber
[Photographer, b. 1949, Paris, lives in Paris.]
My real interest is traveling the world’s tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.
Jim Goldberg
[Photographer, b. 1953, New Haven, Connecticut, lives in San Francisco.]
Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
Joel-Peter Witkin
[Photographer, b. 1939, Brooklyn, New York, lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.]
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn’t stop on the sixth day.
