"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self . . ."
- Cyril Connolly
“When you live by challenging reality, when you don’t accept the norms and values of the people to whom you must relate, you do become unpopular. You may have a different story, a different vision to affirm. You may not wish to be adversarial, but, at best, you end up being marginalized. That is the cost of living a life of protest . . .”
- Judy Wyatt / introduction to Chauncey Hare “Protest Photographs” / 2009
"He thought of photography as a way of preserving segments out of time itself, without regard for the conventional structures of picture building. Nothing was to be imposed on experience; the truth was to be discovered, not constructed . . .
As Evans remembers his thought of the time, he wanted his work to be 'literate, authoritative, transcendent.' The photographer must define his subject with an educated awareness of what it is and what it means; he must describe it with such simplicity and sureness that the result seems an unchallengeable fact, not merely the record of a photographer's opinion; yet the picture itself should possess a taut athletic grace, an inherent structure, that gives it a life in metaphor . . .
- John Szarkowski / introduction to "Walker Evans" / Museum of Modern Art / 1971
