Doubt Quote by Jerome Liebling

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very…

— Antoine D'Agata

Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it…

— Joan Fontcuberta

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was…

— A. D. Coleman

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful…

— Taryn Simon

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us…

— Alison Jackson

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally…

— Barbara Kruger

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

— Christian Boltanski

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

— Michael Light