Age Quote by Jack Kerouac

“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

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

— Berenice Abbott

“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

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

“There is something strikingly different about the quality of photographs of that time. It has nothing to do with age or colour, or the…

— Amitav Ghosh

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

— John Updike

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

— Susan Sontag

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

— Tod Papageorge

During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted…

— Lev Manovich

...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality…

— Siegfried Kracauer

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson