Quotes About Photography Memory

#1. Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Steve Erickson

#2. If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in judging it. The pleasure of the subjective, physical experience in the world is a more distant memory and less influential.

Henry Wessel Jr.

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

Allan Sekula

#4. To remember is to rewrite. To photograph is to replace. The only reliable memories, I suppose, are the ones that have been forgotten. They are the dark rooms of the mind. Unopened, untouched, and uncorrupted.

Abby Geni

#5. At age four I was a camera. I took pictures with my eyes. I framed my photo within my vision and blinked my eyes to snap the shutter of my memory. Since that time, I've been impersonating inanimate objects at every opportunity.

Sophia Amoruso

#6. Amber starts off as sap from a tree," Joseph said in the dark. "And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside."
"Oh."
"A photograph is sort of like that, don't you think?

Brian Selznick

#7. Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

Brassai

#8. I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

Gregory Crewdson

#9. A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

Eudora Welty

#10. I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.

Richard MacDonald

#11. The stony silence of death,
trapped by the original gravity of our sins,
and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn,
a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#12. Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.

Paulo Freire

#13. Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees ... and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

George Eastman

#14. Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

Georges Didi-Huberman

#15. Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world ... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#16. For Love...Real Love...The Kind Of Love That Lasts Forever...

Sybil Shae

#17. Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#19. To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.

Eikoh Hosoe

#20. Capture the moment. It is your only sacred-memory.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. I wonder if Blue knows she's repainting her room.I wonder if he's asking if she wants a ride to the party tonight.I wonder if he knows what being strangled feels like.

Victoria Scott

#22. You bagged a movie star. You should be throwing a fucking party and bragging on Twitter. What you shouldn't be doing is moping, not when you threw him out of your house like a baller.

Alessandra Torre

#23. Boredom is easy. Which is why sadness hides there so readily. But don't be fooled for long. Dying of boredom. There's reason behind that idiom. It'll kill you sure enough.

Adam Haslett

#24. Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

Galen Rowell

#25. The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

Keith Carter

#26. What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Karl Lagerfeld