Decipher Quote by Walter Benjamin

The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

— Walter Benjamin

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

— Peter Greenaway

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to…

— Alvin Toffler

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

— Ai Weiwei

“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

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories…

— Milan Kundera

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

— Sally Mann

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin