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.
Malick Sidibé
[Photographer, b. 1935, Soloba, Mali, d. 2016, Bamako, Mali.]
Photographs are reality: they never lie, and that’s important to me.
Rineke Dijkstra
[Photographer, b. 1959, Sittard, The Netherlands, lives in Amsterdam.]
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.
David LaChapelle
[Photographer, b. 1968, Connecticut, lives in New York.]
If you want reality take the bus.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
André Kertész
[Photographer, b. 1894, Budapest, Hungary, d. 1985, New York.]
You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.
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.
Lee Friedlander
[Photographer, b. 1934, Aberdeen, Washington, lives in New York.]
The world makes up my pictures, not me.
