Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.