Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.