Best memories & photograph Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Gardening Year

“When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.”

Thinking Looks Persons Grows Memories Taken Alive Photography Function Photograph Relate Life Experience Invitations

Author:Jason Fulford

“Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.”

World Speak Language Memories This World Daughter Photograph My Daughter

Author:Alec Soth

“I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.”

Next House Memories Fire Cameras Photograph Pleasant Stations Coming Out Hook Ladders Pleasant Memories

Author:Gordon Bell

“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.”

“We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.”

People Thinking Sometimes Memories Share Modern Painting Huge Photograph Visuals

Author:Chris Hondros

“I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.”

People Ifs Mind Ideas Different Stories Remember Parent Memories Fiction Our Lives Couple Photograph Mood Interpretation Filling Trust Others Filling In

Author:Steven Tyler

“Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.”

Past Memories Creating Photograph

Author:Sally Mann

“We keep this love in a photograph We made these memories for ourselves Where our eyes are never closing Hearts are never broken And time's forever frozen still”

Heart Made Stills Eye Memories Forever Broken Photograph Frozen Closing

Author:Ed Sheeran

“You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.”

Memories Forever Sweet Photograph Warm Guarantees Sweet Memories

Author:Emily Yoffe

“If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.”

Ifs Memories Photograph Stranger

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.”

Memories Perspective Photograph Humble Selfish

Author:Wim Wenders

“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.”

Children Today Remember Black Born Memories Poverty Impossible Influence Childhood Photograph Hunger Hungry Confusion

Author:Gordon Parks

“One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.”

Ifs Littles Remember Memories Cry Despair Photograph Impression Surviving Stirring

Author:W. G. Sebald

“The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.”

Way Memories Century Mirrors Photograph Surface Nineteenth Century Polished Metallic

Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.”

Art Moments Language Memories Photograph Association

Author:Victor Burgin

“My photographs recall the memories of the human race.”

Humans Memories Race Photograph Human Race Recalls

Author:John Coplans

“Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.”

Has Beens Belief Memories Perception Regard Photograph Visuals Grants Sensations Objectivity Fugitive Anomalies Arbiter Visual Perception

Book:Photography & Fascination: Essays

Source: Photography & Fascination: Essays

“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.”

Way Persons Stills Different Real Moments Social Memories Practice Forever Alive Photography Draws Photograph Different Ways Each Day That Moment Linked Explicit

Author:Christian Metz

“How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?”

Doe Social Memories Photography Historical Photograph Transformed Power Relationships

Book:Fish story

Source: Fish story

“If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.”

People Ifs Knows Way Past Parent Memories Photograph Bunch Recalls Charming Our Past Uncles Aunt Your Past Our Memories Drawers Disconnected Postman Old Photographs

Author:Gail Zappa

“In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.”

Might Past Remember Film Memories Building Clothes Photograph Caught Access Memento

Author:Annie Lennox

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