I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
Aaron SiskindIf you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
Aaron SiskindTo me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnโt think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Aaron Siskind