"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."

"Social misery has inspired the comfortably-off with the urge to take pictures, the gentlest of predations, in order t…"

"Paris , that great but compact cosmopolitan and imperial city, has a strong claim to be considered the cradle of stre…"

"Eggleston was a man of his time, the 1960s. In the 1960s, street photography was at its zenith, and Pop Art dominated…"

"Even when photographers are most concerned with mirroring reality, they are still haunted by tacit imperatives of tas…"

"Whitman thought he was not abolishing beauty but generalizing it. So, for generations, did the most gifted American p…"

"Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that …"

"Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing."

"The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past."

"Evans wanted his photographs to be "literate, authoritative, transcendent." The moral universe of the 1930s being no …"