Books Quote by Nora Ephron

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all…

— Andy Grundberg

I got into journalism through writing, primarily. So even when I took photos when I was reporting, I never thought of photography as the…

— Jamelle Bouie

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us,…

— Amitava Kumar

“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be well…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion…

— Martin Parr

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

— Mary Ellen Mark

You're looking for ways always as the writer to bring readers into intimacy, you with them with you. Photos can sometimes do the opposite,…

— Nicole Krauss

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

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents…

— Eugene Richards

As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson