Ability Quote by A. O. Scott

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…

— Susan Sontag

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place…

— Errol Morris

The camera is the eye of history.

— Mathew Brady

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events,…

— Susan Sontag

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

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate…

— Kate Morton

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by…

— Stephen Shore

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with…

— Kate Morton

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't…

— Erica Jong