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“Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.”

Ideas Lying Accepting Photography Photograph Paradox Liars Cherish

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.”

Problem My Own Accepting Photography Conscience Tests Guilt

Author:Martin Parr

“I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now.”

World Believe Real Home I Believe Challenges Accepting Creative Elements Photography Photographer Real Life Mediums Our Time Realism

Author:Berenice Abbott

“Art accepts what it finds.”

Art Accepting Photography Photographer

Author:Frederick Sommer

“And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.”

World Shows Reality Remember Games Given Process Situation Accepting Doubt Perspective Photography Photographer Relate Intimate Fragments Pawns Illusory Unreachable

Author:Antoine D'Agata

“To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.”

Source: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti

“... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.”

Thinking Years Reason Reality Lasts Film Courses Accepting Technology Computer Photography Hundred Fifty Photography And Film Computer Graphics

Author:Lev Manovich

“If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky just a little more blue than it was. Manipulation is very discrete and because it's so discrete nobody cares about it anymore. People accept manipulated photographs, I think.”

People Thinking Care Hate Accepting Photography I Hate Photographer Photograph Manipulation Nobody Cares

Author:Thomas Ruff

“When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.”

Given Accepting Photography Cameras Photographer

Author:Minor White

“Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible”

Ifs World Accepting Impossible Willing Photography Complexes Photograph Pointless Vigorous Bland Informative

Author:John Szarkowski

“To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we make are often ahead of our understanding, but to say "yes" to a subject is also to have recognized, however dimly, a part of oneself; to live with that image, to accept its significance is perhaps to grow in understanding.”

World Way Grows Understanding Existence Accepting Subjects Photography Oneself Significance Exploring

Author:John Blakemore