Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.