Complicity Quote by Victor Burgin

In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want…

— Virginia Postrel

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

— Paul Strand

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

Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of…

— Robert Adams

“Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people who are…

— Esther Verhoef

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed…

— Lee Friedlander

We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations…

— Barry Jenkins

“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped world very…

— Brené Brown

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

— Allan Sekula

This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're…

— Katy Grannan

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all…

— Andy Grundberg

Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to…

— Princess Diana