Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.

The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.