James Agee
[Writer, b. 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee, d. 1955, New York.]
The reason I love the camera is just this... It is... unlike any other leverage of art, incapable of recording anything but absolute, dry truth.
Geoffrey Batchen
[Photohistorian, b. 1956, Australia, lives in Wellington, New Zealand.]
As their name suggests, digital processes actually return the production to the whim of the creative human hand (to the
digits). For that reason, digital images are actually closer in spirit to the creative processes of art than they are to the truth values of documentary.
Allan Sekula
[Photographer, writer, and theorist, b. 1951, Erie, Pennsylvania, d. 2013, Los Angeles.]
A clear boundary has been drawn between photography and its social character. In other words, the ills of photography are the ills of estheticism. Estheticism must be superceded, in its entirety, for a meaningful art, of any sort, to emerge.
