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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

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

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

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the…

— Robert Polidori

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

— Fay Godwin

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

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

— Bill Jay

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment,…

— A. D. Coleman