Despite Quote by Molly Crabapple

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just…

— Berenice Abbott

I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was…

— Tibor Kalman

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

— Allan Sekula

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

— Martha Rosler

The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is…

— Aaron Siskind

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

— Lewis Baltz

Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a…

— Robert Doisneau

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of…

— Geoffrey Batchen

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

— Garry Winogrand

I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.

— Chris Killip

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

— Edward Steichen