Claims Quote by Taryn Simon

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to…

— Bruce Barnbaum

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

— Mason Cooley

There are photographers who don't really engage with their subject. It's a really unfortunate phrase, but they take their photo and they leave with…

— Sebastian Junger

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

— Duane Michals

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to…

— Edward Weston

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

— Olivier Zahm

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of…

— Susan Sontag

We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the…

— Uta Barth

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker