Attention Quote by Howard S. Becker

The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers,…

— Elliott Erwitt

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use…

— Bill Eppridge

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

— W. Eugene Smith

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I got into journalism through writing, primarily. So even when I took photos when I was reporting, I never thought of photography as the…

— Jamelle Bouie

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.…

— Peter C Bunnell

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much…

— Alex Webb

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using…

— W. Eugene Smith

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the…

— Aaron Siskind