Age Quote by Jean Baudrillard

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

— Ai Weiwei

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality…

— Susan Sontag

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

— Arnold Newman

... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred…

— Lev Manovich

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

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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

During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted…

— Lev Manovich

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look…

— Ernst Haas

I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because…

— Berenice Abbott