“No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.” NeedsJobsLyingCertainIndividualWonderfulPhotographyPhotographerPhotographMediumsTruthfulCurrencyConvincing Author:Joel Sternfeld
“In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.” IfsMayDoeFactsFormPhotographyEvidenceProfoundSymbolsTruthfulQuestionableUnderminingPictorial Author:Fred Ritchin
“There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.” SaidPhotographyAbsolutesPhotographTruthfulAbsolute Truth Author:Taryn Simon
“Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.” FirstsLooksFailingPhotographyPoetry IsTruthfulFirst LovePhotography Love Author:Larry Towell
“Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'” ThinkingWantPersonsReasonArtistVisionFailingExpressionPhotographyPhotographerMediumsExplanationWant MeTruthfulFrostYou Want Me Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews