Doe Quote by Allan Sekula

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

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

— Sally Mann

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the…

— Robert Keith Leavitt

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the…

— Robert Keith Leavitt

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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

— Berenice Abbott

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

“Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel,…

— Barbara Nickless

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.…

— Helmut Gernsheim

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa