Attributes Quote by Philip Jones Griffiths

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

— Ai Weiwei

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality…

— Susan Sontag

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make…

— Galen Rowell

The beauty with cameras now is that people are able to start recording stuff. Imagine all of the stuff that's gone on without being…

— Jay Blades

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach…

— Martin Parr

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

— Arnold Newman

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more…

— Alison Jackson

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

— Susan Sontag

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

— Aaron Huey

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson