Gratification Quote by Larry Towell

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

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

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got…

— Jesse Eisenberg

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

— David Wojnarowicz

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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 do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the…

— Catherine Opie

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

— Ai Weiwei

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

— Beaumont Newhall

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents…

— Eugene Richards

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

— Anonymous