Doubtful Quote by Susan Sontag

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

— Ansel Adams

A photograph can look any way.

— Garry Winogrand

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by…

— Stephen Shore

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation…

— Edward Said

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

— Lisette Model

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

— Minor White

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

— Joel Sternfeld

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole.…

— Susan Meiselas