You See, A Document Has Use, Whereas

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.

Do We Know What We Look Like? Not Really.

Science Has Discovered Much. The Engineering Is Wonderful, Epicycles And All. And Yet, As We Look At This Vast, Elaborate Structure Built On Layer And Layer Of Complex Constituents, Can We Help But Be Reminded Of The Land Of Oz. Have We Found The Emerald City? Is This What We Were Searching For? Is This The Ultimate Fabric Of Reality? Is This All There Is?

Leaving Aside The Mysteries And The Inequities Of Human Talent, Brains, Taste, And Reputations, The Matter Of Art In Photography May Come Down To This: It Is The Capture And Projection Of The Delights Of Seeing; It Is The Defining Of Observation Full And Felt.

... Nature Photographs Downright Bore Me For Some Reason Or Other. I Think: 'oh, Yes. Look At That Sand Dune. What Of It?'