“It always fascinates me - it bolloxes my mind, I mean, when people talk about photographs in depth, and what not, you know, when all a photograph does is describe light on surface. That’s all there is. And that’s all we ever know about anybody. You know, what we see. I mean, I think we are our faces and whatever, you know? That’s all there is, is light on surface.”
I'm fascinated by the multitude of ways that photographers think and speak about their art. To my mind, photography is a very slippery thing and, contrary to what Garry says, it takes a lot of thinking to penetrate into what it is. Here's a (growing) collection of thoughts on photography by great practitioners and critics.