Intention Quote by Susan Sontag

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

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

— Berenice Abbott

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with…

— Kate Morton

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

— Sally Mann

“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

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

— Kate Morton

Photography is a form of time travel.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson

As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was…

— Stephen Chbosky

“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

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan