Five Quote by August Sander

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

— John Owen

Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of…

— Christian Metz

The mortician interviewing the corpses

— Eugene McCarthy

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into…

— Jean Cocteau

“I like the term "decedent." It's as though the man weren't dead, but merely involved in some sort of protracted legal dispute. For evident…

— Mary Roach

“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects of the…

— Simon Brett

Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.

— Kate Winslet

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.

— Vicki Goldberg

Without mortification nothing can be done.

— Philip Neri

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

— Christian Boltanski

The post mortem is a ritual which always follows a defeat, no matter which sport you are playing. I know, I've been there enough…

— Shane Lowry