Achieve Quote by Sam Abell

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic…

— Aaron Siskind

Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in…

— Rachel Morrison

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make…

— Giles Duley

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not…

— Berenice Abbott

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making…

— Gillian Jacobs

I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with…

— Jonathan Demme

The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's…

— Frank Gohlke

I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was even very…

— Jack Delano

A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends…

— Lawrence Wright

A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have…

— Alanis Obomsawin