Claims Quote by Laurel Nakadate

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

— Sam Abell

“Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel,…

— Barbara Nickless

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

— Sophocles

Beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in a dark room...So if you see darkness in your life be reassured that a beautiful picture is…

— Nishan Panwar

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts -…

— Maggie Steber

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag

“Photographs don’t discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal.…

— Robert Goddard

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

— Brigitte Bardot

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski