The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located …

- Peter Wollen

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

- Peter Wollen

For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from com…

- Peter Wollen

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of …

- Peter Wollen