Action Quote by W. Eugene Smith

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ...…

— Susan Sontag

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do…

— Martin Parr

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There…

— Larry Clark

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I…

— James Nachtwey

“I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every time your picture is taken, a…

— Jeanne Ryan

I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm…

— Eugene Richards

“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical value of…

— Susan Sontag

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

— Nobuyoshi Araki

It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I…

— George Rodger

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

— Garry Winogrand

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion…

— W. Eugene Smith