Frederick Sommer
[Photographer, b. 1905, Angri, Italy, d. 1999, Prescott, Arizona.]
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.
A.D. Coleman
[Critic and writer, b. 1943, New York, lives in New York.]
We’ve spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.
André Kertész
[Photographer, b. 1894, Budapest, Hungary, d. 1985, New York.]
You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.
Rineke Dijkstra
[Photographer, b. 1959, Sittard, The Netherlands, lives in Amsterdam.]
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.
Justine Kurland
[Photographer, b. 1969, Warsaw, New York, lives mostly on the road.]
It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.
David LaChapelle
[Photographer, b. 1968, Connecticut, lives in New York.]
If you want reality take the bus.
Michael Spano
[Photographer, b. 1949, Bronx, New York, lives in Brooklyn, New York.]
All photographs are manipulated—reality doesn’t look like a photograph anyway.
Alfred Stieglitz
[Photographer and curator, b. 1864, Hoboken, New Jersey, d. 1946, New York.]
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
