In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.
Fred RitchinOne cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.
Fred RitchinMultimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.
Fred RitchinThe photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.
Fred RitchinThe slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."
Fred Ritchin