Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse o….

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them….

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photograph….

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document..

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it..

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting..

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself..

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it..

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good d….

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are ….

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity..

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer..

The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about..

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photograp….

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is..

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so….

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever..

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine..

What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good eno….

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should….