Hand Quote by Ralph Abernathy

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to…

— Jasper Fforde

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

— David Wojnarowicz

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

— Walter Benjamin

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

— Marjorie Garber

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history.…

— Chris Killip

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and their own…

— Gregory Crewdson

“It takes one person to rewrite the history book.”

— J.R. Rim

That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course…

— Eugene Richards