About Quote by Alison Jackson

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

— Martin Schoeller

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images…

— Thomas Ruff

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…

— Edmundo Desnoes

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

— Peter Lindbergh

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you…

— Garry Winogrand

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and…

— Roger Ballen

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough…

— Robert Frank

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was…

— A. D. Coleman

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never…

— Wolfgang Tillmans