Commentary Quote by Joan Fontcuberta

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to…

— Graciela Iturbide

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a…

— Hedi Slimane

I'd like to make documentaries. Way-out documentaries. I'd like to do one on a tour of the U.S.

— Dave Clark

I would like to do more documentaries.

— Zara McDermott

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic…

— Aaron Siskind

A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

— Michael Moore

With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.

— Gaspar Noe

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

— W. Eugene Smith

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

— Anna Deavere Smith