Asks Quote by Danny Lyon

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're…

— Jim Goldberg

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

— Richard Avedon

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children…

— Anne Lamott

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

— David Bailey

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Pictures never tell the whole story," I say trying to be reassuring. "They're a projection of how people want you to see them”

— Fiona Neill

If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as…

— Gregory Crewdson

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which…

— Susan Sontag

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

— Paul Strand

In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a…

— Wynn Bullock

“Who are you who will read these words and study these photographs, and through what cause, by what chance, and for what purpose, and…

— James Agee

It's people who you've seen that have given you a lot. In some ways, I felt they helped me psychologically because you see these…

— Tim Burton