Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling traditions; litanies to family values are at the center of every po...
To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, whe...
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt...