Art Quote by Vilém Flusser

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of…

— Fred Ritchin

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in…

— Steve McCurry

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of…

— Taryn Simon

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene.…

— Beat Streuli

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

— Walter Rosenblum

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

— Francesca Woodman

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a…

— Hedi Slimane

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

— Susan Sontag

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know…

— Robert Adams

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams