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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

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that…

— Trevor Paglen

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding…

— Luke Davies

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without…

— Mona Kuhn

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

— Ai Weiwei

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and…

— Richard Misrach

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

— Karen Bass

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't…

— David Allee

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is…

— Jean Baudrillard

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative…

— Andreas Feininger

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography…

— Trevor Paglen