I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.
Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.
It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.
We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."
The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else.
There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?
Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.
