Contemporary Quote by Berenice Abbott

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…

— Susan Sontag

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

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives…

— Peter Schjeldahl

“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

“A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

— Susan Sontag

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

— Joel Meyerowitz

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that…

— Trevor Paglen

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

— Nikolay Semyonov