Photograph Quote by Barbara Ess

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

I've come to realize that I'm a image maker, not an object maker. Images come to me as photographs because I don't have any…

— Gerardo Suter

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality…

— Susan Sontag

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

— Arnold Newman

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from…

— Richard Kalvar

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

So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for…

— Jean Baudrillard

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

— Michael Light

Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.

— Inge Morath

Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.

— Erica Jong

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or…

— Galen Rowell

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

— Thomas Ruff