The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.

- A. D. Coleman

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

- A. D. Coleman

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world…

- A. D. Coleman

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a spec…

- A. D. Coleman

Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can …

- A. D. Coleman

It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.

- A. D. Coleman

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That…

- A. D. Coleman

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is …

- A. D. Coleman