Photography (n.) is not exhausted by its technological dimensions. The Volcano of Pompei, in its destruction, served as a series of snapshots of an otherwise ungraspable history, or faithful imprints of individuals, with ashes nesting in the creases of garments, the curves of the ear, between fingers.
Photography (n.) is a novel bourgeois enterprise of producing images which involves an inherent danger in its political use.
Photography (n.) is the enlightenment of painting.
Photography (n.) is so modern and so subtle that one is now incapable of photographing a tenement or a rubbish heap, a river dam or an electric cable factory, without transfiguring it. In front of these, photography can now only say, How beautiful!
Photography (n.) opens up an optical unconscious: enlargement and the snapshot show what a person's foot actually does in the split second of a step, which the naked eye never sees.