Photography Quote by Alan Trachtenberg

“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”

— David duChemin

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson

“The mental Images were liquifying So I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen in detailed…

— Kathy Reichs

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those,…

— Chris Hondros

“Photography is an amazing culture that form by the memories.”

— Amal Raj

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its…

— Ralph Ellison

“Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.”

— Orhan Pamuk

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives…

— Peter Schjeldahl

“That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.”

— Maggie O'Farrell

“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