Cameras Quote by Michael Light

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

— Wright Morris

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

— Martine Franck

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

— Allan Sekula

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

— Paul Auster

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

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

— Richard Avedon

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 think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

— Martin Schoeller

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

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful…

— Taryn Simon

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

— Laurie Simmons

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally…

— Barbara Kruger