For Lange every portrait of another person is a “self-portrait” of the
photographer, as for Minor White—promoting “self-discovery through a
camera”—landscape photographs are really “inner landscapes.” The two ideals are
antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the
photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid,
questing subjectivity, the photographer is all.
