Adopted Quote by Andy Grundberg

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

— Wright Morris

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

It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers…

— Henry Peach Robinson

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

— Rineke Dijkstra

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

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

— Martine Franck

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

— Don McCullin

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography…

— Frank Horvat

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of…

— 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

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem…

— Christopher Moore