Conditions Quote by Marshall McLuhan

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

— Allan Sekula

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented…

— Neil Postman

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph…

— Susan Sontag

For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the…

— Bill Henson

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false… For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship…

— Errol Morris

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that…

— William H. Hunt

Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all…

— Arthur Rothstein

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with…

— Freya Stark

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

“It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any story more effectively than words.”

— William Moulton Marston

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential…

— Thomas Struth