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“Important for us is the implicit understanding that the picturesque, like the photographic, sits astride the indexical and the iconic. The cultivation of the eccentric, the singular, the authentic, ‘local color,’ goes hand in hand with the commodification of the visual, the photographic record of what is already a picture, a touristic aesthetics.”

"Rather, to feel the beauty of the problem is precisely not to feel the pathos of the suffering produced by the problem; it’s instead to feel the structure that makes the problem.”

Some people think that the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite way. The more they are photographed (or drawn or painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

"Anything that comes out of that camera is a political document. If I take a shot of the carpet, that's a political document."