I Wanted So Much To

The Meaning Of Quality In Photography's Best Pictures Lies Written In The Language Of Vision. That Language Is Learned By Chance, Not System.

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?

Documentary: That’s A Sophisticated And Misleading Word. And Not Really Clear… The Term Should Be Documentary Style… You See, A Document Has Use, Whereas Art Is Really Useless.

Incidentally, Part Of A Photographer’s Gift Should Be With People. You Can Do Some Wonderful Work If You Know How To Make People Understand What You’re Doing And Feel All Right About It, And You Can Do Terrible Work If You Put Them On The Defense, Which They All Are At The Beginning. You’ve Got To Take Them Off Their Defensive Attitude And Make Them Participate.

You See, A Document Has Use, Whereas Art Is Really Useless. Therefore Art Is Never A Document, Although It Can Adopt That Style.