Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.
Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.
Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.
A camera has interesting ideas of its own.
I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
Even in front of nature one must compose.
A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?