Black Quote by Clarence John Laughlin

Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race.…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's…

— Stephen Shore

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether…

— Noam Chomsky

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

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was…

— A. D. Coleman

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

— Ai Weiwei

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the…

— Paul Valery

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

— Raghu Rai

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less…

— Susan Sontag