Doe Quote by Edward Said

The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to…

— Pedro Meyer

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

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

— Annie Leibovitz

What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from…

— 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

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated…

— Andy Grundberg

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the…

— Sam Abell

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of…

— John Berger

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates…

— Jeff Koons

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to…

— Sam Abell

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented…

— Neil Postman

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process.…

— Stephen Shore