History Quote by Joel Meyerowitz

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.

— Larry Towell

I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay and when…

— Thomas Ruff

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

— Annie Leibovitz

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course…

— Eugene Richards

Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race.…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

— Julian Schnabel

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

— Herb Ritts

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

— John Paul Caponigro

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

— Neil Young

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no history, only histories.

— Karl Popper