Nobody Should Touch A Polaroid

Nobody Should Touch A Polaroid [camera] Until He's Over Sixty

What I Believe Is Really Good In The So-called Documentary Approach To Photography Is The Addition Of Lyricism.[this Quality] Is Usually Produced Unconsciously And Even Unintentionally And Accidentally By The Cameraman.

Many Photographers Are Apt To Confuse Color With Noise, And To Congratulate Themselves When They Have Almost Blown You Down With Screeching Hues Alone-a Bebop Of Electric Blues, Furious Reds, And Poison Greens.

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.

Color Tends To Corrupt Photography And Absolute Color Corrupts It Absolutely. Consider The Way Color Film Usually Renders Blue Sky, Green Foliage, Lipstick Red, And The Kiddies' Playsuit. These Are Four Simple Words Which Must Be Whispered: Color Photography Is Vulgar.