“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.” PeopleHardShowsRealityLyingRolesFashionPaperPhotographyNewsPhotographDeceptionPropagandaGlamorous Author:Martin Parr
“Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.” WayLittlesSometimesBitsFrontsPhotographyLittle BitNewsPagesDryJournalistic Author:Chris Hondros
“Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.” LongStuffQualityDesignFineDependsInternetPhotographyNewsDespiteMagazinesCablesCable News Author:Jann Wenner
“To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.” WorldMeanFacesPhotographyNewsWitnessCarrieRepresentationFormalAffirmationAlarmsFace To FaceInterpretingBearing Witness Author:Richard Misrach
“I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.” MenCountryEyeRunningYoungBloodPhotographyNewsMassLowsMurderClubsGutsTotemsCountry Clubs Author:Burk Uzzle
“When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.” FirstsLooksStillsAmericaPhotographyNewsMagazinesPortraits Author:Vilmos Zsigmond