All photographs are memento mori.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.