I Believe There Is No More Creative Medium Than Photography To Recreate The Living World Of Our Time. Photography Gladly Accepts The Challenge Because It Is At Home In Its Element: Namely, Realism - Real Life - The Now.
What To Me Is Anathema - A Corpse-like, Outmoded Hangover - Is For Photography To Be A Bad Excuse For Another Medium. ... Is Not Photography Good Enough In Itself, That It Must Be Made To Look Like Something Else, Supposedly Superior?
The Lens Freezes Time And Space In What May Be An Optical Slavery Or, Contrarily, The Crystallization Of Meaning. The Limits Of The Lens' Vision Are Esthetically Often A Virtue.
What We Need Of Equipment Is This: Let It Possess As Good A Structure As The Real-life Content That Surrounds Us. We Need More Simplifications To Free Us For Seeing.
Self-conscious Artiness Is Fatal, But It Certainly Would Not Hurt To Study Composition In General. Having A Basic Understanding Of Composition Would Help Construct A Better Organized Image.
Today We Are Confronted With Reality On The Vastest Scale Mankind Has Known And This Puts A Greater Responsibility On The Photographer.
If A Medium Is Representational By Nature Of The Realistic Image Formed By A Lens, I See No Reason Why We Should Stand On Our Heads To Distort That Function. On The Contrary, We Should Take Hold Of That Very Quality, Make Use Of It, And Explore It To The Fullest.
Abstraction In Photography Is Ridiculous, And Is Only An Imitation Of Painting. We Stopped Imitating Painters A Hundred Years Ago, So To Imitate Them In This Day And Age Is Laughable.
To Chart A Course, One Must Have A Direction. In Reality, The Eye Is No Better Than The Philosophy Behind It. The Photographer Creates, Evolves A Better, More Selective, More Acute Eye By Looking Ever More Sharply At What Is Going On In The World. Like Every Other Means Of Expression, Photography, If It Is To Be Utterly Honest And Direct, Should Be Related To The Life Of The Times-the Pulse Of Today. The Photograph May Be Presented As Finely And Artistically As You Will, But To Merit Serious Consideration, Must Be Directly Connected With The World We Live In.
Actually, Documentary Pictures Include Every Subject In The World - Good, Bad, Indifferent. I Have Yet To See A Fine Photograph Which Is Not A Good Document.
