Ideas Quote by Laurie Simmons

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being…

— Marc Riboud

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

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

— Susan Sontag

These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all the warts…

— Jerome Liebling

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

— Christian Boltanski

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists,…

— Susan Sontag

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

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines…

— Roy DeCarava

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed…

— Henry Wessel, Jr

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased…

— Zoe Leonard

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I…

— Errol Morris