"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be."

- Duane Michals

I agree and disagree with this quote - I feel that photography is a form of a documentation, and documentation deals with fact and truth. But, photography can also be distorted, with bokeh and different uses of lenses and various angles to distort proportion. In editing, it can be distorted via color and contrast. Even when two people look at the same photo, they can draw different stories from it.

"If I could tell a story with words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."

- Lewis Hine

I do not agree with this quote, because there are just some things that you cannot express with words. It could be the size of something - you simply cannot capture the impressiveness of the Grand Canyon or the pyramids on a postcard, or even on a photo that covers an entire wall. It is

just too much for a photo to convey properly. Even the facial expressions of someone cannot be properly expressed with words, hence why we say, "You should have seen your face!"

Words reveal the story when setting a scene or mood by providing descriptions, but not everyone knows the meanings of all the words used in those descriptions (I have on several occasions gone to the dictionary to look up the meaning of a word). With images, you see the scene and the mood, and can have a fairly good grasp on what's going on (unless the photographer was subtle about setting up the scene).