Cameras Quote by David Wojnarowicz

The camera is the eye of history.

— Mathew Brady

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history.…

— Chris Killip

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

— Berenice Abbott

For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place...…

— Bell Hooks

That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course…

— Eugene Richards

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions…

— A. O. Scott

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.

— Larry Towell

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

— Beaumont Newhall

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— 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