Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

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