"Photographic lens exists in a savage status."

"I find it almost impossible to believe that the camera could truly capture, for example, the desire of a bird in flight at certain moment--- or at any moment. All too often, the photographer unknowingly loses sight of reality, and the reality runs or rolls away, just outside the frame. Or, surprisingly, reality may be there in a corner of the image, invisible and therefore completely unnoticed.

And so here I am reminded of Man Ray's trenchant modern maxim: 'Photography is not art.'"

--------Shuzo Takiguchi (瀧口修造)

(Quoted from his introduction for Eikoh Hosoe(細江英公)'s [Kamaitachi] 「鎌鼬」)