I’m a BIG photography fan. I worked in publishing for years with some of the best photographers and I collect photographs, but even though I’ve always shot pictures, I’ve never really considered myself a “photographer”. (I HAVE just started a new photo series myself.) Here are a few of the masters of 20th century photography in their own words. There are many more. This just may become a series.

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” -Richard Avedon — “*All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”* -**Richard Avedon**

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” -Ansel Adams — *“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”* -**Ansel Adams**

“I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.” -Irving Penn — *“I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.”* **-Irving Penn**

“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.” – William Eggelston — *“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.”* – **William Eggelston**

(All photographs are self-portraits, with the exception of Arbus.)