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

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.