I Am Constantly Torn Between The Attitude

I Can’t Stand These Damn Shows On Museum Walls With Neat Little Frames, Where You Look At The Images As If They Were Pieces Of Art. I Want Them To Be Pieces Of Life!

My Pictures Are Complex And So Am I.

I Would That My Photographs Might Be, Not The Coverage Of A News Event, But An Indictment Of War - The Brutal Corrupting Viciousness Of Its Doing To The Minds And Bodies Of Men; And, That My Photographs Might Be A Powerful Emotional Catalyst To The Reasoning Which Would Help This Vile And Criminal Stupidity From Beginning Again.

Up To And Including The Moment Of Exposure, The Photographer Is Working In An Undeniably Subjective Way. By His Choice Of Technical Approach, By The Selection Of The Subject Matterand By His Decision As To The Exact Cinematic Instant Of Exposure, He Is Blending The Variables Of Interpretation Into An Emotional Whole.

I Was After A Set Of Pictures, So That When People Looked At Them They Would Say, ‘this Is War’-that The People Who Were In The War Would Believe That I Had Truthfully Captured What They Had Gone Through I Worked In The Framework That War Is Horrible. I Want To Carry On What I Have Tried To Do In These Pictures. War Is A Concentrated Unit In The World And These Things Are Clearly And Cleanly Seen. Things Like Race Prejudice, Poverty, Hatred And Bigotry Are Sprawling Things In Civilian Life, And Not So Easy To Define As War.