"I have, however, vistied other places described by works of art, and have observed that the poem or picture is likely to seem a faithful document if we get to know it first and the unedited reality afterwards - whereasa nwe work of art the describes something we had know well is likely to seem as unfamilar and arbitrary as our own passport photos." pg. 5
"Photography is a system of visual editing." pg. 6
"Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possiblilities is not finite but infinite." pg.6
"In this peculiar art, form and subject are defined simultaneously. Even more than in the traditional arts, the two are inextricably tangled." pg.7
"...it is difficult to conceive of a picture that does not in some sense describe life." pg.12
