Ansell Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West (Wikipedia).

"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."

"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."

"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium"

"A good photograph is knowing where to stand"

W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs (Wikipedia).

"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold."

"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavours."

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

"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."

"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."

"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium"

Max Dupain (22nd April 1911 - 27th July 1992) was a well known Australian photographer. He is best known for his work in photographing Australians.

The gift of a Box Brownie camera in 1924 made an immediate impact on Dupain’s imagination. He responded eagerly to the combination of machine, optics and the spontaneity of creation that photography provided. He commented that:

"I latched onto photography immediately. The intrigue of producing a light picture the way we had to in the 1920’s and earlier was so fascinating that it has stayed with me all my life"

James Francis "Frank" Hurley (15 October 1885 – 16 January 1962) was an Australian photographer, film maker and adventurer. He participated in a number of expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer with Australian forces during both world wars.

"Hurley was born in 1885 in Sydney and went to school at Glebe. As soon as he could, which was aged 13, he scarpered, riding a freight train to the Blue Mountains, working as a labourer at Lithgow, discovering the joys of photography "I know I had found my real work," McGregor quotes him, "and a key, could I but become its master, that would unlock the portals of the undiscovered world" (from A photographer's life)"

Harold Cazneaux (born 1878 in Wellington, New Zealand, died 1953) was an Australian photographer, active in the 1920s and 1930s.

"Is there real art in photography? It depends upon the individual who uses the camera. His vision, imagination, creative ability and his skill to use the camera lens and his technique in the production of the finished print. If the worker is thus capable then indeed will his photographic work bear the stamp of the artist" Harold Cazneaux letter to Jack Cato, 12 March 1951