Communication Quote by Geoffrey Batchen

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

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

— Jay Asher

I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have…

— Lisette Model

[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

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer…

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Gerhard Richter

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of…

— Fred Ritchin

I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite…

— Ian MacKaye

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate…

— John Dykstra

There is a difference between creating something and just capturing something. And when we were using film, it was not that fast, and it…

— Vilmos Zsigmond