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“I think it was during this journey that the image became detached, removed from all the rest. It might have existed, a photograph might…

— Marguerite Duras

“A picture is a moment in time. It is not a reflection of one's day or life.”

— Melony Mejias

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker…

— Rudolf Arnheim

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment.…

— David Levithan

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

— Dennis Oppenheim

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image…

— Brassai

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

— Ivan Klíma

During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted…

— Lev Manovich

“Those static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with…

— Isabel Lopez

The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

— Leanna Renee Hieber