John Berger
[Writer and critic, b. 1926, London, d. 2017, Paris.]
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
Auguste Rodin
[Artist, b. 1840, Paris, France, d. 1917, Paris.]
It is the artist who is truthful and photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop, and if the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.
Paul Graham
[Photographer, b. 1956, Stafford, England, lives in New York.]
...a partial, but nonetheless astonishing description of the creative act at the heart of serious photography: nothing less than the measuring and folding of the cloth of time itself.
Robert Adams
[Photographer and writer, b. 1937, Orange, New Jersey, lives in Astoria, Oregon.]
What a landscape photographer traditionally tries to do is show what is past, present, and future at once. You want ghosts and the daily news and prophecy... It’s presumptuous and ridiculous. You fail all the time.
Edwin Land
[Inventor and entrepreneur, b. 1909, Bridgeport, Connecticut, d. 1991, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
The present is the past biting into the future.
André Kertész
[Photographer, b. 1894, Budapest, Hungary, d. 1985, New York.]
Two seconds are a thousand years.
Daido Moriyama
[Photographer, b. 1938, Ikeda-cho, Osaka, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is “a fossil of light and time.”
Eudora Welty
[Writer, b. 1909, Jackson, Mississippi, d. 2001, Jackson.]
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
