--- title: "4 Peter Wollen Quotes - Famous Screenwriter" description: "British filmmaker (1938-2019)... | Peter Wollen was an English film theorist and filmmaker. He studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. Both a politica..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e8/peter-wollen-65991_aesthetic_the-aesthetic-discussion-of-photography_1523048.jpg" --- # Peter Wollen (1938–2019) Screenwriter **4** quotes in **42** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Peter Wollen was a screenwriter. ## Quick Facts About Peter Wollen Born June 29, 1938 Died December 17, 2019 Profession Screenwriter ## About Peter Wollen British filmmaker (1938-2019)... \| Peter Wollen was an English film theorist and filmmaker. He studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. Both a political journalist and film theorist, Wollen's Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969) helped to transform the discipline of film studies by incorporating the methodology of structuralism an ## Quotes by Peter Wollen > [The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-wollen/the-aesthetic-discussion-of-photography-is-dominated-by-the-concept/) Peter Wollen [Aesthetic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aesthetic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e8/peter-wollen-65991_aesthetic_the-aesthetic-discussion-of-photography_1523048.jpg) > [Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-wollen/photography-is-motionless-and-frozen-it-has-the-cryogenic-power-to/) Peter Wollen [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/243/peter-wollen-65991_decay_photography-is-motionless-and-frozen-it_1693098.jpg) > [For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-wollen/for-photography-to-be-an-art-involves-reformulating-notions-of-art/) Peter Wollen [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76a/peter-wollen-65991_art_for-photography-to-be-an-art-involves-re_2051774.jpg) > [The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-wollen/the-lover-of-photography-is-fascinated-both-by-the-instant-and-by-the/) Peter Wollen [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67b/peter-wollen-65991_captured_the-lover-of-photography-is-fascinated-b_2581168.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-wollen/#itemlist", "name": "Peter Wollen Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. 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