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Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

— Julian Schnabel

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

— Susan Sontag

With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.

— Mickalene Thomas

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

— Duane Michals

✗Opposing Perspectives

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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.

— Aaron Siskind

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.

— Kevin Systrom

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

— Robert Frank