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“When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.”

Thinking Looks Persons Grows Memories Taken Alive Photography Function Photograph Relate Life Experience Invitations

Author:Jason Fulford

“The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.”

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Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“Photography is simply a function of noticing things.”

Photography Function Noticing Noticing Things

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.”

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Author:James Nachtwey

“If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.”

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Book:Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions

Source: Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions

“Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.”

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Book:The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949

Source: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949

“Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.”

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Author:John Szarkowski

“The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that's a step in the right direction.”

Suffering Religious Steps Painting Photography Function Justification Replaced Right Direction Photojournalism Steps In The Right Direction

Author:Luc Delahaye

“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.”

People Reason Hands Actors Found Difficult Talking Photography Function Cameras Witness Shy Substitutes

Author:Martine Franck

“The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.”

People World Helping Photography Function Photographer

Author:Sid Grossman

“Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.”

Seeing Photography Function Photographer Nonsense Zone Academic Noticing Printing Good Photography Noticing Things

Author:Elliott Erwitt