Cameras Quote by Larry Clark

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There…

— Larry Clark

People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person,…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

— Arnold Newman

People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion…

— Sade Adu

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you…

— Mary Ellen Mark

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what…

— Bill Brandt

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

— Susan Sontag

In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange,…

— Henry Holmes Smith

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ...…

— Susan Sontag

It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I…

— George Rodger