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The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's…

— Frank Gohlke

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

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to…

— Graciela Iturbide

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic…

— Aaron Siskind

Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic approach. You…

— Rithy Panh

I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary…

— Richard Billingham

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,…

— Allan Sekula

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a…

— Hedi Slimane

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach…

— Martin Parr