Abbas (Abbas Attar)
[Photographer, b. 1944, Iran, d. 2018, Paris.]
The choice was to think of oneself either as a photojournalist or an artist. It wasn’t out of humility that I called myself a photojournalist, but arrogance. I thought photojournalism was superior. 
Eugene Richards
[Photographer, b. 1944, Dorchester, Massachusetts, lives in New York.]
Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what’s going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor’s ideas, using what’s become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable—more mundane realities be damned. Richard Misrach
[Photographer, b. 1949, Los Angeles, lives in San Francisco.]
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular—journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography—have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning. Philip Jones Griffiths
[Photojournalist, b. 1936, Rhuddian, Wales, d. 2008, London.]
[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. Journalists should be by their very nature anarchists, people who want to point out things that are not generally approved of. It’s by criticizing that society that humanity has made progress. Lee Miller
[Photographer and model, b. 1907, Poughkeepsie, New York, d. 1976, Sussex, England.]
[Being a great photojournalist is] a matter of getting out on a damn limb and sawing it off behind you. Bill Eppridge
[Photographer, b. 1938, Buenos Aires, d. 2013, Danbury, Connecticut.]
You are not just a photojournalist, you’re a historian. Frank Zappa
[Musician and composer, b. 1940, Baltimore, Maryland, d. 1993, Los Angeles.]
And if another woman driverGets machine-gunned from her seat
They’ll send some joker with a brownie
And you’ll see it all complete.