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.

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

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

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

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.

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

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.