Photographs cannot create a moral position, but they can reinforce one-and can help build a nascent one.

The most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads - as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world.

A portrait that declines to name its subject becomes complicit, if inadvertendy in the cult of celebrity that has fueled an insatiable appetite for the opposite sort of photograph: to grant only the famous their names demotes the rest to representative instances of their occupations, their ethnicities, their plights.

The more remote or exotic the place, the more likely we are to have full frontal views of the dead and dying.

Bütün fotoğraflar, altlarına eklenen yazılar ya da üstlerine konan başlıklarla açıklanmayı veya çarpıtılmayı beklerler. Son dönemdeki Balkan savaşlarının ilk aşamalarında Sırplarla Hırvatlar savaşırken, bir köyün topa tutulmasıyla öldürülen aynı çocukların fotoğrafları hem Sırpların hem de Hırvatların propaganda dosyaları içinde yer almıştır. Yazısını değiştirirseniz, çocukların ölümü kolaylıkla yeniden ve yeniden kullanılabilme özelliğine sahiptir.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

A necessidade de comprovar a realidade e de engrandecer a experiência através das fotografias é uma forma de consumismo estético a que todos nos entregamos. As sociedades industriais transformam os seus cidadãos em viciados de imagens; trata-se da mais irresistível forma de poluição mental

To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune.

Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.