Detection Quote by John Szarkowski

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

I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks.…

— William Albert Allard

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

— Dennis Oppenheim

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.

— Erica Jong

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski

“The pictures slipped past again and I kept looking at them. Some of the scans were sepia pictures, going back a hundred years; some…

— Jeffery Deaver

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that…

— Edouard Boubat