Behinds Quote by Annette Messager

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

— Dorothea Lange

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

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

— John Berger

Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life,…

— Robert Adams

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

— Harry Callahan

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

— Craig Owens

Photography is the product of complete alienation.

— Marcel Proust

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

— Lorrie Moore

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how…

— Ernst Haas

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take…

— Drew Barrymore

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie!…

— Stanley Cavell