If I Like Many Photographers, And I

The Photographer Hopes, In Brief, To Discover A Tension So Exact That It Is Peace.

We Have Names For Everything. What If We Forgot About Those Names? And We Stopped Seeing Things As Something? What If We Just Observed Things, Watched Things, Without Giving Them A Name, Without Coming To A Conclusion? What Do You Think Would Happen? You Would Transcend Everything.

Whatever Power There Is In The Urban Pictures Is Bound To The Closeness With Which They Skirt Banality. For A Shot To Be Good — Suggestive Of More Than Just What It Is — It Has To Come Perilously Near Being Bad, Just A View Of Stuff.

Part Of The Reason That These Attempts At Explanation Fail, I Think, Is That Photographers, Like All Artists, Choose Their Medium Because It Allows Them The Most Fully Truthful Expression Of Their Vision... As Robert Frost Told A Person Who Asked Him What One Of His Poems Meant, 'you Want Me To Say It Worse?'

...i Felt That Photography Ought To Start With And Remain Faithful To The Appearance Of The World, And In So Doing Record Contradictions. The Greatest Pictures Would Then... Find Wholeness In The Torn World.