"It is clear that the notion of an artist, usually wrong, has been and is the greatest obsession of the photographers, and the origin of his own ruin. A photographers pictorialists would like to be received in society as true artists, and therefore try to transform the picture in what is not, introducing it as a pictorial sense, erasing his own mechanical origin (... ..) The claim of painting, the need to become artists, has been a major obsession of the photographers and the cause of their own failure. Hence the sterility of their work. "
Paul Strand (1923)
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