Capture Quote by Jean Baudrillard

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

— Barbara Ess

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that…

— Pierre Bourdieu

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

— Roland Barthes

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

— Ai Weiwei

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature…

— Duane Michals

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

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination…

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Alfred Stieglitz

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard