May Quote by Richard Misrach

“Photographs are just light and time,”

— John Green

I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar…

— Rondal Partridge

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place…

— Errol Morris

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past,…

— Peter Wollen

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

— John Updike

“There's always a "time and place" for photography.”

— April Anderson

Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated…

— Michael Light

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

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.

— Uta Barth

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

— Susan Sontag

“The photograph not only stops time, Benjamin argues, but also works to project the future out of the past. The photograph is a forward-looking…

— Shawn Michelle Smith