Kindle Notes & Highlights
It is those photographers who have gone over from figurative art to photography, not out of opportunistic considerations, not by accident, not for convenience, who today constitute the avant-garde among their colleagues, because their development protects them, to some extent, from the greatest danger facing contemporary photography, namely the influence of artistic professionalism. ‘Photography as art’, says Sasha Stone, ‘is a very dangerous field’.
‘The illiterate of the future’, it has been said, ‘will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph’.
