Jean Cocteau
[Writer, poet, artist, and filmmaker, b. 1889, Maisons-Lafitte, France, d. 1963, Milly-la-Foret, France.]
The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
Philip Jones Griffiths
[Photojournalist, b. 1936, Rhuddian, Wales, d. 2008, London.]
...we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.
Thomas Demand
[Photographer, b. 1964, Munich, Germany, lives in Los Angeles.]
Things just enter reality through photographs.
Daido Moriyama
[Photographer, b. 1938, Ikeda-cho, Osaka, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
For me photographs are taken in the eye before you’ve even thought what they mean. That’s the reality I’m interested in capturing.
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
The world becomes a series of events that you transform into pictures, and those events have reality, so far as you have pictures of them.
Justine Kurland
[Photographer, b. 1969, Warsaw, New York, lives mostly on the road.]
It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
[Artist, b. 1953, Hartford, Connecticut, lives in New York.]
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.
Frederick Sommer
[Photographer, b. 1905, Angri, Italy, d. 1999, Prescott, Arizona.]
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.
