“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
“We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.” IdeasUseShowsRealityUsedProductsApproachPhotographyAspectToolsSellsPropagandaDrowning Author:Martin Parr
“Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.” HandsPowerfulPhotographyRingsStatementsMediumsPropagandaPersuasionManipulator Book:Basic Photography Source: Basic Photography
“It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.” ThinkingPurposePhotographyPhotographerPhotographPropagandaPresumptuous Book:Of time & place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry Source: Of time & place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry
“Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.” IfsDoneWholeFormProcessPiecesEffectsProductsSkillsPhotographyMassEnormousPropagandaDevicesDocumentsWork DoneAgitation Author:John Heartfield
“Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.” MeanStrugglePhotographyPropagandaRevolutionaryIndispensableOutstanding Author:Willi Munzenberg
“Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.” HumansStrongRaceEnvironmentHealthyPhotographyWeaponsSurvivalToolsDefensePropagandaHuman RaceDevicesFostering Author:Eliot Porter