Change Quote by Charles Moore

Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the…

— William Wyler

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

— Ai Weiwei

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents…

— Eugene Richards

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

— Trevor Paglen

That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course…

— Eugene Richards

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think…

— Walker Evans

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the…

— Catherine Opie

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to…

— Trevor Paglen

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the…

— Robert Smithson

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.

— Larry Towell