Documentaries Quote by Berenice Abbott

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

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

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity;…

— Sam Abell

The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices…

— Mark Rydell

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

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

— Dorothea Lange

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

— Berenice Abbott

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer…

— Berenice Abbott

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene.…

— Beat Streuli

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

— Alice Walker

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

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

— Martha Rosler