Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966)

'If he is a great master of technique, then in a moment [the photographer] can conjure up things which will call for days of effort from the artist, or may even be totally inaccessible to him, in realms which are the natural home of photography. Whether it be as the sovereign mistress of the fleeting moment, or in analysis of individual phases of rapid movement; whether to create a permanent record of the transient beauty of flowers, or to reproduce the dynamism of modern technology'

(A. Renger-Patzsch, quoted in D. Kuspit, Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object, New York 1993, n.p.)