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

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

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.

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.

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

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