Approach Quote by Walker Evans

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's…

— Frank Gohlke

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,…

— Allan Sekula

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of…

— Beaumont Newhall

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

— Orson Welles

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for…

— George Ratliff

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

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.

— Roland Barthes

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

— Sune Rose Wagner