When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.