Photography Quote by Agatha Christie

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?”

— Agatha Christie

“Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when you open…

— Molly Lefebure

“Might it also be that creating narratives around murder allows a measure of comfort? Murder in the abstract is terrifying; in the details, you…

— Emily Maguire

“Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such…

— Greg Marinovich

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.…

— Gerhard Richter

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

— Weegee

“My childhood ended that summer. I learned the word murder. But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that...You…

— William Landay

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me…

— Barbara Kruger

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to…

— Joel Sternfeld

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long…

— Donna Tartt