“My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained.” PeopleWellsAmericaUnderstandingClearPhotography Author:Anton Corbijn
“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeDifferentAmericaMovingNightOpportunityStageFieldsBuildingColorDevelopmentIndustryPhotographyLaborTradeMajorityAddFortuneInternationalOilInventionShipsDevelopingBranchesChemicalsEnteringBankingOne NightElectricalAircraftColossalOil IndustryColor PhotographyForeign Trade Author:B. C. Forbes
“Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels like a natural moment for painting to look out, to reclaim that directive of picturing America.” FeelsLooksMomentsAmericaNaturalIdentityPaintingPhotographyInward Author:Cynthia Daignault
“When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.” FirstsLooksStillsAmericaPhotographyNewsMagazinesPortraits Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksWarCountryShowsEyeAmericaDesireSufferingSituationHorrorPhotographyConcernedInspiredDocumentsHomelessnessProstitutionHorror Of War Author:Jamel Shabazz
“Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.” PeopleAmericaUsedWonderEnvironmentPhotographyTraditionWestPhotographerPhotographEastLandscapeCoastEast CoastAmerican TraditionAmerican WestLandscape PhotographyScenic Author:Galen Rowell
“In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.” PersonsAmericaPastRecordsPhotographyPhotographerCapturing A Moment Photography Book:On photography Source: On photography
“I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.” ThinkingArtProblemSeemsAmericaPhotographyPhotographerEducationalUnimportantEducational System Author:Chuck Close