Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.