I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.