Cutting Quote by Mike Hawthorne

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

— Allan Sekula

The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in…

— Martha Rosler

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

“Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed…

— Victoria Hislop

My dad used to open up photo albums and stuff and you'd have to tell a story about the picture but you couldn't tell…

— Sara Quin

“There is more to every photograph than what we see-more to the story than the one the camera captures on the plate. You have…

— Hazel Gaynor

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

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms…

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Ansel Adams

“All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there.”

— Ray Bradbury