Information overload Quote by Jeff Davidson

Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole…

— Gus Van Sant

“I wonder if we would ever switch back to old photo albums we got printed from photography shops. A Kodak KB10 camera with 36…

— Crestless Wave

Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the…

— Joe McNally

“Dipping into the archive is always an interesting, if sometimes unsettling, proposition. It often begins with anxiety, with the fear that the thing you…

— Moyra Davey

In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures.

— Masha Tupitsyn

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

— Alexis Stewart

Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store…

— Ginni Rometty

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and…

— Douglas Coupland

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

— Douglas McCulloh

In some areas, [Getty Images has] more images than the rest of the market put together. But libraries are being built up at a…

— Mark Getty

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world…

— Anonymous

Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put…

— Mark Klett