Essence Quote by Errol Morris

Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it…

— Joan Fontcuberta

...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

The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in…

— Martha Rosler

Your anger will spoil your image first, Then that proves harmful to others,,,

— Mak_786

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.…

— Walter J. Phillips

Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of…

— Robert Adams

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the…

— Victor Burgin

“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical value of…

— Susan Sontag

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

— Garry Winogrand

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally…

— Barbara Kruger

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

— Henry Adams

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…

— Edmundo Desnoes