Given Quote by Susan Sontag

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

— Susan Sontag

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was…

— A. D. Coleman

“What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word.”

— T.A

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being…

— Marc Riboud

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

— Allan Sekula

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be…

— Yukio Mishima

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

— Christian Boltanski

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

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however,…

— Robert Adams

“There is more to every photograph than what we see-more to the story than the one the camera captures on the plate. You have…

— Hazel Gaynor