However, I Must Stress That My Own

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.

Producing A Photographic Document Involves Preparation In Excess. There Is First The Examination Of The Idea Of The Project. Then The Visits To The Scene, The Casual Conversations, And More Formal Interviews - Talking, And Listening, And Looking, Looking. ... And Finally, The Pictures Themselves, Each One Planned, Talked, Taken And Examined In Terms Of The Whole.

As Photographers, We Must Learn To Relax Our Beliefs. Move On Objects With Your Eye Straight On, To The Left, Around On The Right. Watch Them Grow Large As They Approach, Group And Regroup As You Shift Your Position. Relationships Gradually Emerge And Sometimes Assert Themselves With Finality. And That's Your Picture.

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.

If You Look Very Intensely And Slowly Things Will Happen That You Never Dreamed Of Before.