We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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.
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent.
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.