“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

“to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”

“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

“Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.”

“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”