{"quotes":[{"text":"The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the doing how ready I had to be. Life doesn't hold still. A good snapshot stopped a moment from running away. Photography taught me that to be able to capture transience, by being ready to click the shutter at the crucial moment, was the greatest need I had. Making pictures of people in all sorts of situations, I learned that every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it. These were things a writer needed to know. And I felt the need to hold transient life in words - there's so much more of life that only words can convey - strongly enough to last me as long as I lived. The direction my mind took was a writer's direction from the start, not a photographer's or a recorder's.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["camera","capture-transience","convey","crucial-moment","direction","feeling","gesture","photography","snapshot","still","words","writer"],"id":50103,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["childhood","clarity","clear","dream","future","imagination","kodak-moment","life","moment","nostalgia","past","pause","photography","regret","snapshot","time","worry"],"id":317693,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["camera","capture","darkroom","digital","disposable","entertainment","family","film","free","friend","fun","grief","home-video","joy","knowledge","kodachrome","kodak","kodak-moment","lomography","loss","love","memories","nikon","nostalgia","photography","photos","science-power","snapshot","super-8","time","time-machine","time-travel","world"],"id":405888,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}