Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

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.

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.