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

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

"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 …"

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

"The flâneur is not attracted to the city's official realities but to its dark seamy corners, the neglected population…"

"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."

"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have becom…"

"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."