Access Quote by Don DeLillo

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment…

— David Hurn

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of…

— Chuck Close

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

What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over…

— Eva Rubinstein

Things just enter reality through photographs.

— Thomas Demand

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place…

— Errol Morris

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more…

— Alison Jackson

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

— Nelson Shanks

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts -…

— Maggie Steber