Clue Quote by David Hockney

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

— Berenice Abbott

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer…

— Berenice Abbott

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

— Molly Crabapple

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the…

— Aaron Siskind

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

— Lewis Baltz

A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself, but it's…

— Robert Barry

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

— Wright Morris

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

— Lucy R. Lippard

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl