This group has common origins in terms of culture, religion, geography and politics. Their influence is noteworthy.

They had been influenced by Bauhaus. They have much in common in the way they used their cameras, their use of angles for illustration and their use of backlighting. You can see the influence of cinema and architecture.

The photographer began to play an important role.

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that is one of the symptoms of a dying culture. In ancient Rome, as the republic disintegrated and the Caesars were deified, as the Roman Senate became little more than an echo chamber of the emperor, the population’s attention was diverted by a series of frontier wars and violent and elaborate spectacles in the arena. The excitement of entertainment consumed ancient Rome’s emotional and intellectual life. It poisoned civic and political discourse. Social critics no longer had a form in which to speak. They were answered with ridicule and rage. It was not prerogative of the citizen to think.

[In a May 1996 interview with] Inside Politics, ... The policy worked, and now we're getting the Iranians and their influence out of Bosnia, and I think it's a good story.

Citizens want not just input but influence.