Photograph Quote by Marshall McLuhan

The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or a place…

— Idris Khan

A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic,…

— Susan Sontag

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

— Susan Sontag

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

— Susan Sontag

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

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which…

— Susan Sontag

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

— Steve McCurry

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment…

— David Hurn

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense…

— Allen Ginsberg

I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world, then you…

— Frank Gohlke

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

— Kate Morton