Herman Melville
[Writer, b. 1819, New York, d. 1891, New York.]
Almost everybody is having his ‘mug’ engraved nowadays; so that this test of distinction is going to be reversed; and therefore, to see one’s ‘mug’ in a magazine, is presumptive evidence that he’s a nobody... I respectfully decline being oblivionated.
Lee Miller
[Photographer and model, b. 1907, Poughkeepsie, New York, d. 1976, Sussex, England.]
I took some pictures of the place [Hitler’s residence] and I also got a good night’s sleep in Hitler’s bed. I even washed the dirt of Dachau in his tub.
Annette Messager
[Artist, b. 1943, Berck-sur-Mer, France, lives in Paris.]
Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in pornography is precisely the repetition of the same: the clichés of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.
Princess Anne Mountbatten-Windsor
[British royalty, b. 1950, London, lives in London.]
You are a pest by the very nature of that camera in your hand.
(To a photographer)
Karl Marx
[Political philosophers, b. 1818, Trier, Germany, d. 1883, London.]
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
Jean François Millet
[Artist, b. 1814, Gruchy, France, d. 1875, Barbizon, France.]
A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.
Pedro Meyer
[Photographer, b. 1935, Madrid, Spain, lives in Mexico City.]
Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.
Subcommander Marcos (Rafael Sebastian Guillén Vicente)
[Professor and revolutionary, b. 1957, Tampico, Mexico, lives in Chiapas, Mexico.]
For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.