Past Quote by Douglas McCulloh

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

— Berenice Abbott

The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change…

— Paritoshik Sharma

“Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at…

— Alamvusha

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

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

“The photograph not only stops time, Benjamin argues, but also works to project the future out of the past. The photograph is a forward-looking…

— Shawn Michelle Smith

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

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

Sometimes to make a future, you have to let go of the past...of old what ifs, the memories, the photographs and replace it all…

— Sarah Moores

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

— Brigitte Bardot

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

— David Wojnarowicz