Bias Quote by Peter C Bunnell

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I…

— Errol Morris

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

— Andy Grundberg

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with…

— Freya Stark

...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

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

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski

To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to…

— David Wojnarowicz

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag