“Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.” WorldHumansMomentsFormSocialNumbersRecordsPhotographyCamerasRateAvailableDisappearDestroyedLandscapeDevicesThat MomentSocial LifeRate Of Change Book:On photography Source: On photography
“A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.” FeelsMadeMomentsFilmChoicesSoundNovelDogReaderPhotographySentencesChosenThat MomentCaptureBarking Dogs Author:Jonathan Lethem
“For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.” WayImportantMomentsSubjectsPhotographyPerfectionAll TimeThat MomentCapture Book:Edward Weston on photography Source: Edward Weston on photography
“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.” WayPersonsStillsDifferentRealMomentsSocialMemoriesPracticeForeverAlivePhotographyDrawsPhotographDifferent WaysEach DayThat MomentLinkedExplicit Author:Christian Metz
“Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality.” ThinkingGivingMomentsRealityLiteratureInterestingFictionPhotographyWingsFollowingObservationDescriptionThat MomentLet It GoStaging Author:Larry Sultan
“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.” InspirationalMomentsPleasurePhotographyLifetimePhotographerPhotographThat MomentThings In LifeEmbarrassmentPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyPhoto ShootsCapturing A Moment PhotographyEmbarrassing Moment Author:Tony Benn
“Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.” MomentsHomeHappensInterestPhotographyCamerasPhotographerThings HappenAll TimeThat MomentPhotography By PhotographersGreat PhotographyCamera And PhotographyStreet PhotographyFilm PhotographyPhotography And Film Author:Elliott Erwitt
“Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."” IfsLooksImportantMomentsPhotographyPhotographGladThat Moment Book:Pictures under discussion Source: Pictures under discussion
“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.” WayMomentsPhotographyPhotographerAccomplishedThat MomentCapturedFramedAgonizingPoignancy Author:Simon Roberts
“There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration.” ArtEnoughMomentsInspirationOpportunityWaitingHoursVisionRecordsExpressionPhotographyAdvantagePhotographerSeekingMediumsRealizationThat MomentSecondsInwardHesitationMomentary Author:Sadakichi Hartmann