Important Quote by Stuart Franklin

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

— Marie Calloway

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

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

— Martha Rosler

Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally…

— Stuart Franklin

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine…

— Robert Crumb

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

— Leslie Cockburn

When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much…

— Phife Dawg

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

— Catherine Opie

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

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

Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put…

— Mark Klett