Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

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

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

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.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

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