«I do not doubt but the majesty & beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world ... I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse, than I have supposed. . . .
(Walt Whitman)
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In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.
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The whole point of photographing people is that you are not intervening in their lives, only visiting them. The photographer is supertourist an extension of the anthropologist, visiting natives and bringing back news of their exotic doings and strange gear The photographer is always trying to colonize new experiences or find new ways to look at familiar subjects—to fight against boredom. For boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.»
Susan Sontag. On Photography