Past Quote by 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

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

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Ai Weiwei

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— Berenice Abbott

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality…

— Susan Sontag

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

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

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

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams