I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves. ~ Gordon Parks

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs. ~ Annie Leibovitz

The fight for photography became my life. ~ Alfred Stieglitz

I’ve always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I’m like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I’m focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.~ Joyce Tenneson, O, 5/01

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. ~ Richard Avedon

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. ~ Dorthea Lange

A picture is like a prayer; you’re offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it’s like a gift of God because you have practically no control—at least I don’t. ~ Harry Callahan

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ~ Berenice Abbott

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