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June 21, 2006
w. eugene smith on photography
I frequently have sought out those who were in the least position to speak for themselves. I can comment for them, if I believe in their cause, with a voice they do not possess.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news-event but and indictment of war – the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.
W. Eugene Smith
Posted by amin at June 21, 2006 3:39 PM