Occupation: Curator Birth: June 22, 1908 Death: February 26, 1993
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While i….
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of ….
Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, docu….
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history..
It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing..
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so mel….
Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar….
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form..
We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually..