To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal