Call it second sight, the removal from and connection to subject that the camera affords. Recreating the mystery of the senses, replicating the distance between mind and eye, establishing the resonance between eye and lens in which the thoughtful poetry of vision can be explored, the camera is the gathering of decision, reminding the photographer of his locus of power at the center of seeing. It demonstrates the essential conjunction of mind and world and the primacy--the truth--of interpretation.
"This journal is not a mere literary diversion. The further I progress, reducing to order what my past life suggests, and the more I persist in the rigor of composition--of the chapters, of the sentences, of the book itself--the more do I feel myself hardening in my will to utilize, for virtuous ends, my former hardships. I feel their power." --Jean Genet
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