Character Quote by Hedi Slimane

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for…

— Gisele Freund

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins…

— Sam Abell

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic…

— Aaron Siskind

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until…

— Elliott Erwitt

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,…

— Allan Sekula

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

— Edward Steichen