Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exerci….

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in th….

Photography helps people to see..

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your o….

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would ….

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring..

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the ….

Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reprod….

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world….

If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that f….

I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge becaus….

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past..

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past..

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a bet….

Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, ….

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be o….

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her..

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to fre….

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, a….

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, someth….

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see..