Capture Quote by Ian MacKaye

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I've always shot photos and tried to document as much as possible, but it was basically just for documentation because I do not have…

— Evan Mock

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of…

— Geoffrey Batchen

There's an awful lot of work being done that no one ever sees, or that is only seen in the gallery world. I feel…

— Stuart Franklin

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

For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece…

— Catherine Yass

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

— Francesca Woodman

It's always kind of a bit rough having a camera crew documenting your life. And then you just kind of forget that they're there…

— Dean McDermott

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do…

— Vilém Flusser

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells