Absolutes Quote by August Sander

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

— Frank Horvat

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the…

— Berenice Abbott

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The…

— Robert Adams

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past,…

— Peter Wollen

My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the…

— Harry Callahan

For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image of the…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of…

— Edward Burtynsky

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders