To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism. . . This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.