Focus Quote by Kevin Systrom

With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

— Kevin Systrom

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

— Berenice Abbott

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson

When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some…

— Reggie Watts

People nowadays take pictures, not for memories, but to post them on facebook and get comments.

— Anonymous

Photography is just light remembering itself.

— Jerry Uelsmann

“Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“Pictures: When moments become memories”

— Kaustav Misra

“I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a picture of…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Photos remember what people forget.

— Nishan Panwar

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

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann