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“Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.”

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Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.”

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Author:Luigi Ghirri

“[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.”

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Author:Raoul Hausmann

“Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.”

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Author:William Mortensen

“People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.”

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Author:Juan Enriquez

“We've witnessed so many revolutions in our society. Think of transportation, photography, or communications. Things once unimaginable have become seemingly impossible to live without.”

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Author:Wayne Pacelle

“Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.”

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Author:Ansel Adams

“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”

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Book:Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography

Source: Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”

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Book:Singular images

Source: Singular images

“More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.”

“I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will this kind of transcendent communication into existence. I have to be open and truly present, and if I am lucky, grace descends. My best photographs are an honest collaboration, and when the viewer also connects, I feel the circle is complete.”