Addict Quote by Ellen Goodman

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject…

— Brady Corbet

Who controls the images? Ultimately, we don't control the images. This is the minimum we're allowed to ask for: we don't get to control…

— Hari Kondabolu

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

— Walter Sickert

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond…

— Jean Baudrillard

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their…

— Susan Sontag

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think…

— Walker Evans

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all…

— Andy Grundberg

It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.

— Jay Maisel

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to…

— Terence McKenna