Arguing Quote by James Welling

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it…

— John Berger

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for…

— Roy DeCarava

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are…

— John Berger

We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the…

— Uta Barth

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not…

— Garry Winogrand

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It…

— Man Ray

Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait.…

— John Sexton

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make…

— Martin Parr

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

— Richard Avedon

To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable…

— Eikoh Hosoe