Certain Quote by Jerome Liebling

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From…

— James Nachtwey

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you…

— Barbara Kruger

In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it,…

— Christian Boltanski

I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

— Alix Smith

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got frustrated and…

— Juergen Teller

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a…

— Fred Ritchin

Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning,…

— Abelardo Morell

I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth.…

— Gerhard Richter

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their…

— Ben Shahn

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.

— Danielle Steel

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to…

— Susan Sontag