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“A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.”

Moments Lying Ready Photography Photograph Impression Welcome Unexpected Fleeting Subjective Anticipate

Author:Martine Franck

“For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.”

Artist Process Challenges Half Creative Photography Mediums Print Creative Process Subjective Practise Methodology Pallets

Author:David Travis

“Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.”

Made Lying Photography Made It Witness Reports Documents Subjective False Witness

Author:Robert Doisneau

“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.”

Thinking Needed Photography Sells Historical Mediums Shock Subjective Always Believe Photojournalism

Author:Fred Ritchin

“My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.”

Photography Photograph Interpretation Subjective

Author:Bill Jay

“Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.”

Giving Mean Doe Song Creative Approach Photography Subjective Subjectivity Initiate

Book:Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

“There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.”

Art Behinds Fronts Photography Aspect Cameras Photographer Landscape Subjective

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values