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While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

— Douglas Coupland

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

— Alison Jackson

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

— Harold Evans

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

— Haskell Wexler

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

— Cesar Romero

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

— Keith Barry

✗Opposing Perspectives

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

— Richard Avedon

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

— Barbara Kruger

Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

— Richard Avedon