Ralph Gibson
[Photographer, b. 1939, Los Angeles, California, lives in New York.]
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.
Bill Gates
[Businessman, b. 1955, Seattle, Washington, lives in Medina, Washington.]
If you’re a guest [at my $113 million house], you’ll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like—presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
Frank Gohlke
[Photographer, b. 1942, Wichita Falls, Texas, lives in Southborough, Massachusetts.]
I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you’re in the world, then you enter the picture and you’re in a different world (it’s not the same as the one you live in, but recognizable as one you might live in). And then you’re returned to your world with an enlarged sense of its possibilities.
Beate Gütschow
[Photographer, b. 1970, Mainz, Germany, lives in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany.]
In my work, ideal means not to exclude ugliness, it means to construct reality.
Arnold Genthe
[Photographer, b. 1869, Berlin, Germany, d. 1942, New York.]
The tremendous development of the camera in recent years has been remarkable. Now almost anyone can take pictures, and most of them are doing it. But it is rather like giving a 6-year-old a pistol.
(1937)
John Glenn
[Astronaut and politician, b. 1921, Cambridge, Ohio, lives in Washington D.C.]
To hell with this. I’m going to go down to Cocoa Beach.
(On being told by NASA that he couldn’t take a camera on his historic first space flight, forcing him to make a trip to a Florida drugstore where he bought the Ansco Autoset snapshot camera and two rolls of Kodak film he used on the flight.)
Katy Grannan
[Photographer, b. 1969, Arlington, Virginia, lives in Berkeley, California.]
I’ve always thought the family album is really a fiction. This was my first realization that photographs lie.
Helmut Gernsheim
[Photographer, collector, and photohistorian, b. 1913, Munich, Germany, d. 1995, Lugano, Switzerland.]
Your nightmare existence in a trunk is over... At long last you will be recognized as the inventor of photography. This picture will prove it to all the world.
(On his discovery of the “first photograph,” made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.)