Ernst Haas
[Photographer, b. 1921, Vienna, Austria, d. 1986, New York City.]
I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.
Josef Koudelka
[Photographer, b. 1938, Biskovice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, lives in Paris.]
...photography was easier in the beginning. It’s like a dart game: at the beginning, you can toss them anywhere, they will always be well placed. Wherever you hit is the right place. But once you start building something, you realize that certain pieces are missing.
Louis Stettner
[Photographer, b. 1922, Brooklyn, New York, d. 2016, Saint-Ouen, France.]
When I look at the work of other photographers, what’s important for me is to see their vision in a photograph, not just a raw document.
Abelardo Morell
[b. 1948, Havana, Cuba, lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.]
I want my photographs to reflect a time when science, art, philosophy, and religion were closer brothers and sisters, as they were during Fox Talbot’s time.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
Have you ever tried to peel an apple with a Leica?
(Explaining his lifelong obsession with knives.)
Harold Edgerton
[Scientist, inventor, and photographer, b. 1903, Fremont, Nebraska, d. 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
We worked and worked, didn’t get anywhere. That’s how you know you’re doing research.
Edward Steichen
[Photographer and curator, b. 1879, Luxembourg, Germany, d. 1973, West Redding, Connecticut.]
Usefulness has always been attractive in the art of photography.
Malick Sidibé
[Photographer, b. 1935, Soloba, Mali, d. 2016, Bamako, Mali.]
My photographs are a kind of tourism because it’s as if you’re traveling to Mali when you see them.
