Man (looking at a Stieglitz Equivalent) : Is this a photograph of water?

Stieglitz : What difference does it make of what it is?

Man : But is it a photograph of water?

Stieglitz : I tell you it does not matter!

Man : Well, then, is it a picture of the sky?

Stieglitz : It happens to be a picture of the sky. But I cannot understand why that is of any importance.

Conversation from Dorothy Norman, Minor white, A living Remembrance.

"You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too!"

William EGGLESTON

"Today, everything exists to end in a photograph."

Susan SONTAG