Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
Paul StrandPhotography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)
Paul StrandLook at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.
Paul Strand