Giving Quote by Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Sally Mann

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

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

— Wim Wenders

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

— Ai Weiwei

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions…

— A. O. Scott