Quotes About Photojournalism

#1. I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Barbara Kruger

#2. I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.

Alex Webb

#3. I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

Mary Ellen Mark

#4. This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of photographers that come in and tell these stories.

Ron Haviv

#5. The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that's a step in the right direction.

Luc Delahaye

#6. That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

Nora Ephron

#7. I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism.

Rene Burri

#8. I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

W. Eugene Smith

#9. Photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes?

Larry Towell

#10. Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of ... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not trying to define things. I'm trying to explore things. I'm trying to ask questions.

Alex Webb

#11. When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

David Burnett

#12. And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.

William Eggleston

#13. War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

David Burnett

#14. Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee

Sacha Hartgers

#15. [Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

Philip Jones Griffiths

#16. Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#17. The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

Eli Pariser

#18. Finding a protest without placards is like photographing a hippie without a bong.

Steve Merrick

#19. It's very important that you tell someone when you are being bullied - someone that you trust. You should never be quiet when you are being bullied or when you see someone being bullied. It's so important to stand up and say something.

Stephanie McMahon

#20. Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

Timothy Noah

#21. I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

Lynsey Addario

#22. Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#23. Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly.
"I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.

Liz Reinhardt

#24. I'm sorry,' I say for what feels like the millionth time. I know, even as my mouth forms the words, that I will say them for the rest of my life. Forever. That there will never be a time when I am not, in some small way, apologizing for the damage my brother has wrought.

Jennifer Banash