The Eye Traffics In Feelings, Not In

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.

Science Has Rolled Its War Wagons Over The Crushed Myths Of So Many Religious Beliefs. It Has Marshaled Its Mechanics To Explain The Motions Of The Sun, Moon, And Stars. It Has Mapped The Heavens, Leaving No Place For Gods To Live.

I Say Half Jokingly That Photography Is The Most Difficult Of The Arts. It Does Require A Certain Arrogance To See And To Choose. I Feel Myself Walking On A Tightrope Instead Of On The Ground.

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.

I Never Took It Upon Myself To Change The World. And Those Contemporaries Of Mine Who Were Going Around Falling For The Idea That They Were Going To Bring Down The United States Government And Make A New World Were Just Asses To Me.