The Ongoing Moment Quotes

“In photography there is no meantime. There was just that moment and now there’s this moment and in between there is nothing. Photography, in a way, is the negation of chronology.”
― Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs

“Lange claimed that every photograph was a self-portrait of the photographer.”
― Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs

“Arbus would later insist, ‘the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture”
― Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs

“Dorothea Lange said that ‘the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment

“Photographers sometimes take pictures of each other; occasionally they take pictures of each other at work; more usually they take photographs - or versions - of each other's work. Consciously or not they are constantly in dialogue with their contemporaries and predecessors.”
― Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment

“Walker Evans said it was ‘a pet subject’ of his — how writers like James Joyce and Henry James were ‘unconscious photographers’.”
― Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment