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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

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

— Rineke Dijkstra

[Photography] tells you that every second in time is different from every other second. You want people to understand that the image in front…

— Roger Ballen

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

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

— Chuck Close

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

— Richard Avedon

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth…

— Alison Jackson

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

— Martine Franck

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

— Allan Sekula

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

— Don McCullin

Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.

— Leonard Freed

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

— Jean-Luc Godard