Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
~ Dorothy Lange
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
~ Ansel Adams
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
~ Ansel Adams
The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.
~ Ansel Adams
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don’t find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
~ William Albert Allard, “The Photographic Essay”
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
~ Ansel Adams
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
~ Elliot Erwitt
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~ Edward Steichen
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
