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Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives…

— Peter Schjeldahl

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like…

— Peter C Bunnell

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

— Errol Morris

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the…

— Berenice Abbott

“Photography is the power of observation,and not the application of technology....”

— Prerna Sharma

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the…

— John Pfahl

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way…

— John Pfahl

“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world…

— Vilém Flusser