Conditions Quote by Allan Sekula

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over…

— Eva Rubinstein

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are…

— John Berger

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

— Susan Sontag

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

— Roland Barthes

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

— Marshall McLuhan

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the…

— Alexey Brodovitch

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented…

— Neil Postman