On photographs which proceed one from the other
“The idea of running photographs which proceed one from the other, almost in inevitable sequence, so that you feel an inevitable sequence and progression, gives photography an opportunity to make a statement that isn’t just one little idea after another little idea none of which builds up to anything. Some day someone will really develop a theme, I don’t think anyone yet has developed a theme that has sentences and paragraphs and builds to a whole….That is a method of, a channel of exploration that really interests me. That isn’t strictly photojournalism, that comes closer to the literary form of essay. The camera can find its way through a chain of events, very marvelously, outer events, if you hold on to the thread, if you hold on to that thread.”
“This business of group, by likeness of association, by dissidence, by extreme opposites,…is on the way to the development of an idea or a statement of photography, and it is unique to this medium. Note, this has nothing to do with photojournalism.”
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