Jerry Uelsmann
[Photographer, b. 1934, Detroit, Michigan, lives in Gainesville, Florida.]
I am drawn to art that challenges one’s sense of reality.
Thomas Demand
[Photographer, b. 1964, Munich, Germany, lives in Los Angeles.]
Things just enter reality through photographs.
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
[Photographer, b. 1889, Brassó, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), d. 1984, Eze, Alpes-Maritimes, France.]
The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.
David LaChapelle
[Photographer, b. 1968, Connecticut, lives in New York.]
If you want reality take the bus.
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.
Walker Evans
[Photographer, b. 1903, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1975, New Haven, Connecticut.]
The blind are not totally blind. Reality is not totally real.
Thomas Ruff
[Photographer, b. 1958, Zell, Germany, lives in Dusseldorf, Germany.]
If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
The vast maw of modernity has chewed up reality and spat the whole mess out as images.
