A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum.

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.

If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. [...] Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm.

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.