19th century Quote by Neil Postman

“The wonderful thing about modern technology is the amount of communication and information-sharing it facilitates. And the awful thing about modern technology is the…

— Mark McGuinness

Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service…

— Joan Fontcuberta

“We’re at a crossroads in human history. The digital age has unearthed unprecedented access to information and connection, but it has also unleashed a…

— Sol Luckman

It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of…

— Andre Derain

I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way…

— John Pfahl

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

— Jean-Luc Godard

“Attend any conference on telecommunications or computer technology, and you will be attending a celebration of innovative machinery that generates, stores, and distributes more…

— Neil Postman

“Photography is the power of observation,and not the application of technology....”

— Prerna Sharma

[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to…

— Walead Beshty

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the…

— Berenice Abbott

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

— David Ogden Stiers

Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art,…

— Susan Sontag