Black Quote by Nobuyoshi Araki

Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of…

— Christian Metz

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.

— Vicki Goldberg

I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me…

— Barbara Kruger

The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of…

— Christian Metz

[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy.…

— Annette Messager

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived.

— Michael Rosen

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in…

— Roland Barthes

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

— John Berger

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Media today is even more black and white, then early photography ever was

— Loesje