“So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.” ShouldDoeRealitySufferingExamplePhotographyCaptureRealismRealist Author:Jean Baudrillard
“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?” ArtCountrySufferingHumanityGivenPleasurePoorActingMoralityPhotographyBlessedDearCastsMy TimeAbsentInventorTolerableDear OnesChloroform Author:Jane Welsh Carlyle
“You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.” HumansUseSufferingPhotographyCamerasShieldsHuman Suffering Author:Zana Briski
“Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.” LittlesPainSufferingBitsGoalPhotographyLittle BitWorthyPursueWorthwhile Author:Chris Burkard
“I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.” PeopleSufferingWallPhotographyVictimMuseumsNot Interested Author:Richard Misrach
“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.” SufferingReligiousStepsPaintingPhotographyFunctionJustificationReplacedRight DirectionPhotojournalismSteps In The Right Direction Author:Luc Delahaye
“I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksWarCountryShowsEyeAmericaDesireSufferingSituationHorrorPhotographyConcernedInspiredDocumentsHomelessnessProstitutionHorror Of War Author:Jamel Shabazz
“...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.” IfsEnoughSufferingCausesViewsFeetExpressionPhotographyEnlightenmentPhotographerPhotographLegsStuckArtisticHillsPoundsDragListenersEquipmentWhiningArtistic ExpressionTripods Author:Bill Jay
“It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.” SufferingEasyRecordsPhotography Author:Robert Capa