Ask me Quote by Daido Moriyama

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place…

— Errol Morris

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

— John Updike

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

Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

— Paul Strand

“Photographs are just light and time,”

— John Green

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its…

— Roland Barthes

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of…

— Sam Abell

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As…

— Elizabeth Edwards