John Szarkowski Fact Quotations

People don't think of landscapes as moving, but they do. The light changes, the clouds move, and that's what Adams' photography is really about -- about the fact that nature is not permanent.

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