“I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.”
—DOROTHEA LANGE
“I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession.”
—ALFRED STIEGLITZ
“Being an artist, I had an artist’s instincts....You can see the picture before it’s taken; then it’s up to you to get the camera to see.”
—JAMES VAN DER ZEE
“A photograph is not an accident—it is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.”
—ANSEL ADAMS
“When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.”
—EDWARD STEICHEN
“It’s in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I’m confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.”
—RICHARD AVEDON
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
—DIANE ARBUS
“It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveller who enters a strange country.”
—BILL BRANDT
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