André Bazin
[Film critic and theorist, b. 1918, Angers, France, d. 1958, Nogent-sur-Marne, Île-de-France, France.]
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
John Berger
[Writer and critic, b. 1926, London, d. 2017, Paris.]
A photograph is static because it has stopped time. A painting or drawing is static because it encompasses time.
Robert Frank
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1924, Zürich, Switzerland, lives in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, and New York.]
It’s not the decisive moment. It’s not the beginning or end. It’s the middle. It’s more like a question.
A.D. Coleman
[Critic and writer, b. 1943, New York, lives in New York.]
The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.
Dieter Appelt
[Photographer and artist, b. 1935, Niemegk, Germany, lives in Berlin.]
A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure gives a form that never existed.
Ai Weiwei
[Artist, b. 1957, Beijing, lives in Beijing.]
...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.
Susan Meiselas
[Photographer, b. 1948, Baltimore, Maryland, lives in New York.]
It’s a strange experience… the photograph is like an object frozen in time, and people’s lives go on.
