Approach Quote by W. Eugene Smith

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

— Marisa Tomei

I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was…

— Tibor Kalman

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can…

— Michael Langford

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The…

— Alexandra Kerry

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

— Allan Sekula

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as…

— Andreas Feininger

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I…

— W. Eugene Smith

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using…

— W. Eugene Smith

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely…

— Paul Strand

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

— Jeremy Scahill

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

— Berenice Abbott