The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

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

They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.