Abomination Quote by Elliott Erwitt

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

— Mary Mattingly

...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

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

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

— Maurizio Cattelan

If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo…

— Sandy Skoglund

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography…

— Marcel Duchamp

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

— Al Goldstein

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say…

— Carol Friedman

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach…

— Martin Parr

People are narcissistically obsessed with taking pictures of everything they eat.

— Topaz Page-Green

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones