Fractions Quote by Rineke Dijkstra

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

— Martine Franck

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

Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it…

— Joan Fontcuberta

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

— Lewis Hine

A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about…

— Martine Franck

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

— Allan Sekula

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

— Andre Kertesz

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful…

— Taryn Simon

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

— Laurie Simmons

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its…

— Sally Mann