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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Steven Soderbergh

Photography

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.

Ben Shahn

Time

Photography

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

Ben Shahn

Photography

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

Ben Shahn

Knowledge

Photography

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.