
“Photographers are failed painters.”
Picture Palace (1978)
Source: On Photography
“Photographers are failed painters.”
Picture Palace (1978)
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
Part 4: "The Abacus and the Rose" (p. 103)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Attributed to Adams in E.T. Schoch (2002), The Everything Digital Photography Book (2002) p. 105
In an interview with Okwui Enwezor, as quoted in "The Camera Is Not a Machine Gun" http://designobserver.com/article.php?id=10557, Fred Ritchin, 1998