Another way Quote by Howard S. Becker

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium…

— Joel Sternfeld

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

— Allan Sekula

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

— Michael Craig-Martin

For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the…

— Bill Henson

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always…

— Thomas Ruff

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the…

— Alexey Brodovitch

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

— Garry Winogrand

I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of…

— Lorna Simpson

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you…

— John Gutmann