Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that read more

Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional read more

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first read more

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core read more

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, read more

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Photography is truth.

Photography is truth.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.