Good Photography Is Unpretentious.

Whether He Is An Artist Or Not, The Photographer Is A Joyous Sensualist, For The Simple Reason That The Eye Traffics In Feelings, Not In Thoughts.

Incidentally, Part Of A Photographer’s Gift Should Be With People. You Can Do Some Wonderful Work If You Know How To Make People Understand What You’re Doing And Feel All Right About It, And You Can Do Terrible Work If You Put Them On The Defense, Which They All Are At The Beginning. You’ve Got To Take Them Off Their Defensive Attitude And Make Them Participate.

The Photographs Are Not Illustrative. They, And The Text, Are Coequal, Mutually Independent, And Fully Collaborative. By Their Fewness, And By The Importance Of The Reader’s Eye, This Will Be Misunderstood By Most Of That Minority Which Does Not Wholly Ignore It. In The Interests, However, Of The History And Future Of Photography, That Risk Seems Irrelevant, And This Flat Statement Necessary.

Documentary: That’s A Sophisticated And Misleading Word. And Not Really Clear… The Term Should Be Documentary Style… You See, A Document Has Use, Whereas Art Is Really Useless.

It's Too Presumptuous And Naïve To Think You Can Change Society By A Photograph Or Anything Else... I Equate That With Propaganda; I Think That's A Lower Rank Of Purpose.