The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more…

Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invente…

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flari…

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.