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“The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.”

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Author:Peter Wollen

“These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.”

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Author:Ansel Adams

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”

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Author:Brigitte Bardot

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.”

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Book:The House at Riverton: A Novel

Source: The House at Riverton: A Novel

“I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.”

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Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.”

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Author:Elliott Erwitt

“No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.”

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Author:Simon Roberts

“Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.”

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Author:Matthew Modine