“I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.” ThinkingBelieveClaimsDon't BelievePhotographBeing TrueTrue Or False Author:Errol Morris
“You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.” ElementsClaimsHorsePhotographSentencesBeing TrueCowsCaptionTrue Or False Author:Errol Morris
“I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.” PeopleFirstsChildrenHas BeensSoulMotherHumanityDemandEssentialsClaimsPhotographIndividualityMy ChildrenGrandmotherRecallsClosestButtonsIgnoredBiographiesTemperamentNomadicTime And Patience Author:Gertrude Kasebier
“Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that is larger than us, larger than the things we can point to, remember and claim, escorts us from dark into light.” HeartSometimesLightRememberDarkShadowClaimsPhotographGhostUnbornPermanence Author:Laurel Nakadate
“The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.” KnowsMembersPhotographyClaimsPhotographClubsParticipants Author:Taryn Simon
“Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.” MadeWarShowsClaimsCamerasPhotograph Author:David Hockney
“In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.” ViewsPhotographyClaimsPhotograph Author:Emile Zola
“I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.” KnowsMadeFeltSawsSubjectsPhotographyClaimsPhotographerPhotograph Author:David Hurn