Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits st...uck over a labourer's fireplace ... will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term--meaning that the creation of a simple photo...graph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching--there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern photographers can reduce bones to formlessness, and change a face of the most strange, exquisite and unfathomable beauty in...to the face of a clubwoman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do--that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I ...felt very perverse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, "I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me... the story of your life." I mean people are going to say, "You're crazy." Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pleasant smell of frying sausages Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible... Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to kee...p on looking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things.... But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »