Interpretation Quote by Bill Jay

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

— John Szarkowski

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.

— Joachim Schmid

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make…

— Martin Parr

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented…

— Neil Postman

It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.

— James Welling

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for…

— Roy DeCarava

Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may…

— Peter C Bunnell

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

— Anonymous