Photography Role Quotes

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.