Capture Quote by Julian Schnabel

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

Photography is a form of time travel.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history.…

— Chris Killip

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

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…

— Susan Sontag

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions…

— A. O. Scott

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

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

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with…

— Kate Morton

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

— Berenice Abbott

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

— Sally Mann