Accomplished Quote by Walter Lippmann

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

— Arnold Newman

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt…

— Susan Sontag

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

— Peter Lindbergh

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

... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was…

— A. D. Coleman

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee

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