All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.