Doubt Quote by 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

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

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

— Christian Boltanski

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists,…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Allan Sekula

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

— Jim Goldberg

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

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

— Paul Auster

I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the…

— Laurie Simmons

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

— Dieter Roth

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

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