We are all part of the history of photography...

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

— Keith Carter

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history.…

— Chris Killip

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

— David Hockney

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur…

— Denis Donoghue

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a…

— Soheir Khashoggi

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a…

— Fred Ritchin

As far as Vern and I go, we have had situations where people have tried to take photographs of me and cut Vernon out…

— Tess Daly

Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a…

— Janice Kaplan

If you want to edit your photos and make yourself look different, go for it. That is up to you, but in my opinion,…

— Peyton List