A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of the state of mind o…

- James Welling

It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.

- James Welling

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or runni…

- James Welling

[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is…

- James Welling

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought conve…

- James Welling

... I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began to realize that the edge of the n…

- James Welling