However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands
Everyone in California is from somewhere else.
In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.
We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality
The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.