Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.