Shimon Attie
[Photographer, b. 1957, Los Angeles, lives in New York.]
I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.
Gordon Parks
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1912, Fort Scott, Kansas, d. 2006, New York.]
I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.
Christian Boltanski
[Artist, b. 1944, Paris, lives in Paris.]
The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can’t visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.
Umberto Eco
[Writer, semiotician, and philosopher, b. 1932, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy, d. 2016, Milan.]
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it’s a memory that you’ve given me. I’ll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
Sally Mann
[Photographer, b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia, lives in Lexington.]
I believe that photographs actually rob us of our memory.
Milan Kundera
[Writer, b. 1929, Brno, Bohemia (now Czechoslovakia), lives in Paris.]
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
Sally Mann
[Photographer, b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia, lives in Lexington.]
Here is my theory of photography: I think pictures actually create memories.
Julio Cortázar
[Writer, b. 1914, Brussels, Belgium, d. 1984, Paris, France.]
... remembering, that gloomy operation of comparing the memory with the gone reality; a frozen memory, like any photo, where nothing is missing, not even, and especially, nothingness, the true solidifier of the scene.
