Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Interpretation
Photography helps people understand each other better.
Edward Steichen suggests that photography serves as a powerful medium for communication and connection among individuals. Through images, photography captures human experiences, emotions, and stories, thus fostering understanding and empathy in a way that words alone often cannot.
In practice
During a presentation on the impact of art, one might use this quote to illustrate how visual media fosters communication.
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... _x000D_ The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.
Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.
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