Approach Quote by Martha Rosler

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

— Allan Sekula

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated…

— Andy Grundberg

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

— Eddie Adams

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.…

— Walter J. Phillips

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

— Barbara Kruger

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

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

— David Attenborough

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make…

— Edgar Degas

Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it…

— Joan Fontcuberta

And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very…

— Antoine D'Agata