Age Quote by Mary Pilon

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator…

— Barbara Kruger

“Get used to the idea of significant portion of the population walking around with high-speed Internet connections on their person, with sophisticated video cameras…

— Ian Lamont

During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented…

— Xaviera Simmons

I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment…

— Russell James

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,…

— Allan Sekula

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

— Elliott Erwitt

“The tremendous leisure industry that has arisen in the last few generations has been designed to help fill free time with enjoyable experiences. Nevertheless,…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Photography created, and then social media aggravated, the vast majority of people’s inability to enjoy what is happening … without the urge to capture…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to…

— Susan Sontag

What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at…

— Bryan Adams

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events,…

— Susan Sontag