Specificity Quote by Uta Barth

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

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were…

— Kevin Systrom

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

— Richard Misrach

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

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

— James F. Cooper

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

— Susan Sontag

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

— Roger Penrose

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

— Simon Sinek

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

— Lucretius

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

— Frank Horvat

“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