When you've lived through the golden age of…

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'…

— John Szarkowski

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the…

— David Burnett

The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself…

— Luc Delahaye

I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere…

— Alex Webb

What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in…

— Henri

I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go…

— Rachel Morrison

Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but I found…

— Olivia Arthur

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

— Mary Ellen Mark

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are…

— Fred Ritchin

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

— W. Eugene Smith

After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I read tons…

— Peter Menzel

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much…

— Edward Burtynsky

If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high…

— Leonard Nimoy

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a…

— Fred Ritchin