Greater Quote by Berenice Abbott

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is…

— Philippe Halsman

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

— Ai Weiwei

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using…

— W. Eugene Smith

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

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

Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention,…

— Sam Abell

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

— Walter Rosenblum

Things just enter reality through photographs.

— Thomas Demand