Ambiguity Quote by John Pfahl

One must confront vague ideas with clear images,

— Jean-Luc Godard

I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of…

— Lorna Simpson

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed…

— Chris Ofili

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.…

— Walter J. Phillips

Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal…

— Taryn Simon

“Making the pictures ridiculous is what enables you to really see them; a logical picture is usually too vague.”

— Harry Lorayne

Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational history, so…

— Larry Sultan

The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in…

— Martha Rosler

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

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try…

— Bill Brandt

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are…

— John Berger

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams