Century Quote by Peter C Bunnell

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

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

— Errol Morris

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

— Bill Jay

Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now…

— Alec Soth

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson

“When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?”

— Philip K. Dick

I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed…

— Lee Friedlander

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

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was…

— Minor White

Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies…

— Christian Metz

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives…

— Peter Schjeldahl

As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was…

— Stephen Chbosky