Aggressive Quote by Trevor Paglen

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware…

— Jennifer Beals

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents…

— Eugene Richards

Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked…

— Carrie Mae Weems

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news.…

— William Klein

We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo…

— Stuart Franklin

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

— Mel Bochner

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

— Dennis Oppenheim

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change…

— Jamel Shabazz

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

— Marshall McLuhan

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.

— Willi Munzenberg

There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which leads us…

— Stuart Franklin

I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the…

— Jamel Shabazz