Arresting Quote by Janet Malcolm

Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events,…

— Susan Sontag

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs…

— Susan Sontag

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

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all…

— Edward Weston

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker…

— Rudolf Arnheim

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated…

— Michael Light

[Photography] tells you that every second in time is different from every other second. You want people to understand that the image in front…

— Roger Ballen

If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and sometimes lovely,…

— John Filo