Bruce Davidson
[Photographer, b. 1933, Oak Park, Illinois, lives in New York.]
I’ve had the privilege of being an outsider allowed on the inside, searching for beauty, meaning and myself.
Shomei Tomatsu
[Photographer, b. 1930, Nagoya, Japan, d. 2012, Okinawa, Japan.]
If I had seven lives, I’d be a photographer in every one.
Thomas Ruff
[Photographer, b. 1958, Zell, Germany, lives in Dusseldorf, Germany.]
I don’t believe in the psychologizing portrait photography that my colleagues do, trying to capture the character with a lot of light and shade. That’s absolutely suspect to me. I can only show the surface. Whatever goes beyond that is more or less chance.
Robert Capa (Endre Ern? Friedmann)
[Photographer, b. 1913, Budapest, Hungary, d. 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam.]
It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.
Adrian Piper
[Artist, b. 1948, Harlem, New York, lives in Hyannis, Massachusetts.]
I am black. What are you going to do about it?
Martin Parr
[Photographer, b. 1952, Epson, Surrey, England, lives in Bristol and London, England.]
I am what I photograph.
Donald McCullin
[Photographer, b. 1935, Finsbury Park, London, lives in Somerset, England.]
I feel shabby—because I’ve made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?
Thomas Struth
[Photographer, b. 1954, Geldern, Germany, lives in Dusseldorf.]
I’m interested in photographs that have no personal signature.
