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Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

The first light-field camera array I saw at Stanford had a bunch of applications, like to do special effects like you see in 'The Matrix,' where you spin the camera around in frozen motion. It took up an entire room.

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.