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There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

— Joseph Conrad

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable…

— Joseph Conrad

The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.

— Siegfried Kracauer

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag

What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the…

— Aaron Siskind

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense…

— Allen Ginsberg

“At times throughout the night, they seemed to turn from real, living people into mere photographs of people, and then from photographs into memories,…

— Josh Ritter

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not…

— Max Kozloff

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

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

— Beaumont Newhall

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and…

— Susan Sontag