Bits Quote by John Sexton

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or…

— James Welling

A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of…

— James Welling

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the…

— Richard Avedon

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always…

— Thomas Ruff

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

— Martin Schoeller

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the…

— Alex Webb

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as…

— Andreas Feininger

I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself…

— Emily Blunt