Battle Quote by Denis Donoghue

The camera is the eye of history.

— Mathew Brady

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions…

— A. O. Scott

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

— David Wojnarowicz

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events,…

— Susan Sontag

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or…

— James Welling

A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.

— Roger McDonald

My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine,…

— David Douglas Duncan

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as…

— Andreas Feininger

The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this…

— Joachim Schmid

“In fact, the shot’s cunning re-objectivization suggests just how uncertain this surveillance expert’s grasp of the visual field has perhaps been all along.”

— Sianne Ngai

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of…

— Bill Brandt

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

— Jerry Uelsmann