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 …

- Helmut Gernsheim

The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative inten…

- Helmut Gernsheim

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them t…

- Helmut Gernsheim

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man. Independe…

- Helmut Gernsheim

Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in …

- Helmut Gernsheim

I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me.

- Helmut Gernsheim