Abolish Quote by Roland Barthes

“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

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

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

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

“Sometime during my study of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, I uncovered an odd paradox that exists in our minds about time gone…

— Andy Andrews

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye

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

— David Wojnarowicz

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous…

— David Maisel

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

— Ai Weiwei

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