Assertion Quote by Allan Sekula

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful…

— Taryn Simon

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.…

— Walter J. Phillips

Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it…

— Joan Fontcuberta

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

— Martine Franck

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

— Errol Morris

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

— Richard Avedon

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

— Rineke Dijkstra

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

— Eddie Adams

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth…

— Alison Jackson

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

— Martin Schoeller