Exposure Quote by Dieter Appelt

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

— Lauren Beukes

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else.

— Anonymous

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

— Gerhard Richter

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

— Brigitte Bardot

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

— Aldous Huxley

[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid…

— Thomas Struth

[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

— Dorothea Lange

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers…

— Tod Papageorge