Characteristics Quote by Marshall McLuhan

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's…

— Edward Weston

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

— Leanna Renee Hieber

Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

— Roni Horn

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives...…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment.…

— David Levithan

It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph… my images [are] something that is not…

— Idris Khan

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in…

— Steve McCurry

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all…

— Edward Weston

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty