Quotes by
Peter Rose Pulham

The question, whether or not photography is an art, has always seemed to me irritating, meaningless and beside the point. If photography is used merely as a technical process to record some visible fact, it is an adjunct to science. But if it is used to express, since all expression is emotional, selective and personal, it cannot avoid the use of art.

I believe that the photographer has just as much scope as the painter for the expression of his feelings… The only point, raison d’être, of art that I can see, is the attempt to express some supposed reality, to illuminate ordinary objects with that vivid flash of light which suddenly makes everything seem clear an inevitably right.