Photography Is A Way Of Feeling, Of

To Me Documentary Photography Means Making A Picture So That The Viewer Doesn’t Think About The Man Who Made The Picture. At Its Esthetic Core Is Very Old Tradition In Art: Naturalism. And Its Purpose Is To Document All Facets Of Social Relationships.

However, I Must Stress That My Own Interest Is Immediate And In The Picture. What I Am Conscious Of And What I Feel Is The Picture I Am Making, The Relation Of That Picture To Others I Have Made And, More Generally, Its Relation To Others I Have Experienced.

The Business Of Making A Photograph May Be Said In Simple Terms To Consist Of Three Elements: The Objective World (whose Permanent Condition Is Change And Disorder), The Sheet Of Paper On Which The Picture Will Be Realized, And The Experience Which Brings Them Together.

The Only Nature I'm Interested In Is My Own Nature.

I May Be Wrong, But The Essential Illustrative Nature Of Most Documentary Photography, And The Worship Of The Object Per Se, In Our Best Nature Photography, Is Not Enough To Satisfy The Man Of Today, Compounded As He Is Of Christ, Freud, And Marx.