Paul Cezanne
[Artist, b. 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France, d. 1906, Aix, France.]
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
David Levi Strauss
[Writer and critic, b. 1953, Junction City, Kansas, lives in New York.]
One terrible truth about photographs is that they can only ever show us
what happened, never what is happening or will happen. They are always about something that is
gone, and so are in league with death.
Richard Misrach
[Photographer, b. 1949, Los Angeles, lives in San Francisco.]
Every photograph is a measure of time. Perhaps each can even be considered a metaphysical time-stamp of sorts.
John Loengard
[Photographer, editor, and critic, b. 1934, New York, lives in New York.]
There really is no moment. The picture is the moment.
John Updike
[Writer, b. 1932, Shillington, Pennsylvania, d. 2009, Boston, Massachusetts.]
A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.
David Levi Strauss
[Writer and critic, b. 1953, Junction City, Kansas, lives in New York.]
Photographs by themselves certainly cannot tell ‘the whole truth’—they are only instants.
Roni Horn
[Artist, b. 1955, New York, lives in New York and Iceland.]
As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.
Michael Light
[Photographer, b. 1963, Florida, lives in San Francisco.]
Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They’re beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time.
