Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism,… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was… — Jack Delano Copy Share Image
Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by… — Pierre Mac Orlan Copy Share Image
I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
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