Right foot, left foot, hemorrhage.
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something. . . was somewhere and took a picture.
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet. . . the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.
Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
I found out that a lot of my liberal friends weren't liberal because they weren't liberal about approaching anybody else's ideas, or at least standing for it. They started getting really animalistic about, "I can't even associate with this guy. He's stupid. He's an idiot. "
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.
Do what the client wants, not what you want.