Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the o…

- Howard S. Becker

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the …

- Howard S. Becker

Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicia…

- Howard S. Becker