The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. — Susan Sontag

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

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.'''

Even when photographers are most concerned with mirroring reality, they are still haunted by tacit imperatives of taste and conscience.