History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.