Documents Quote by John Paul Caponigro

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what…

— A. D. Coleman

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the…

— Aaron Siskind

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

— Garry Winogrand

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of…

— Van Deren Coke

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

— Barbara Kruger

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer…

— Berenice Abbott

Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put…

— Mark Klett

I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite…

— Ian MacKaye

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

— Duane Michals

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