“For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.” LooksReasonGoalInterestMemoriesCareersRecordsSubjectsPurePhotographyTradePhotographerRefuseTricksBetrayReportersDocumentsLensesVirtuosity Author:Andre Kertesz
“My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.” WealthPurePhotographyPhotographerPhotographImperfectionSeething Author:Frederick Sommer
“I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.” ThinkingArtistExamplePurePhotographyPhotographerGood ExamplesNewman Author:John Sexton
“Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.” LittlesArtSoulTodayBrainBreakPurePhotographyDefinitionsVacationVague Author:Ernst Haas
“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.” IfsSaidSubjectsEffectsPurePhotographyAbsolutesMirrorsStartingPsychologicalPrincipalPortraitsStarting PointAbsolute Truth Author:August Sander
“Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.” MomentsMightGivenParticularPurePhotographyVantage Point Author:John Szarkowski
“The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world.” WorldMaySaidIdeasRealityRecordsPurePhotographyEvidenceDetailsProofBusBullshitFragments Author:Marc Riboud
“They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.” SometimesExistencePurePhotographyPhotographVisualsDetection Author:John Szarkowski