Belief Quote by Roger Ballen

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

— John Loengard

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

— Barbara Ess

For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of…

— Jean Baudrillard

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The…

— Robert Adams

Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.

— Erica Jong

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually…

— Duane Hanson

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

— Dawoud Bey

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from…

— Richard Kalvar