Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.

What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.