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“Do you think it’s possible for the camera to lie?”

“It certainly is. It almost always does.”

Walker Evans

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Garry Winogrand

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Garry Winogrand

People say they need to express their emotions, I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions, it teaches you to see.

Berenice Abbott

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

Berenice Abbott

There’s nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Let us first say what photography is not.

A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, or a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality.

It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term – selectivity.

Berenice Abbott

For me, the subject of a picture is always more important than the picture. And more complicated.

Diane Arbus

The photograph isn’t what was photographed. It’s something else. It’s a new fact.

Garry Winogrand

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

Berenice Abbott

It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts, whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

Diane Arbus

I think there isn’t a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability. They do not tell stories. They show you what something looks like. To a camera.

Garry Winogrand

Observations on Photography, Society, and Art.

“Do you think it’s possible for the camera to lie?”

“It certainly is. It almost always does.”

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

People say they need to express their emotions, I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions, it teaches you to see.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

There’s nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Let us first say what photography is not.

A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, or a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality.

It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term – selectivity.

For me, the subject of a picture is always more important than the picture. And more complicated.

The photograph isn’t what was photographed. It’s something else. It’s a new fact.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts, whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

I think there isn’t a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability. They do not tell stories. They show you what something looks like. To a camera.