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“I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.”

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Author:Barbara Kruger

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

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Author:Richard Avedon

“I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.”

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Author:Alex Webb

“I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.”

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Author:W. Eugene Smith

“The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that's a step in the right direction.”

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Author:Luc Delahaye

“[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.”

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Author:Philip Jones Griffiths

“I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a societal and historical referent needed to be both safeguarded and illuminated....now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort.”

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Author:Fred Ritchin

“If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.”

Source: Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

“The pictures are there, and you just take them.”

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Author:Robert Capa

“If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.”

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Author:Eddie Adams