Annotation Quote by Ben Katchor

There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what was being…

— John Heartfield

“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be well…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer…

— Andy Grundberg

Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally…

— Stuart Franklin

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

— Boss Tweed

“In fact, words do speak louder than pictures. Captions do tend to override the evidence of our eyes; but no caption can permanently restrict…

— Susan Sontag

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

— Stephen Jay Gould

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

— Tibor Kalman

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

— Anonymous

You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a…

— Errol Morris