Books Quote by Walker Evans

...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

...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 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

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.…

— Helmut Gernsheim

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is…

— Philippe Halsman

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world…

— Berenice Abbott

“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s…

— Roy DeCarava

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

“Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.”

— Debasish Mridha