What talented photographers do cannot of course be characterized either as
simply predatory or as simply, and essentially, benevolent. Photography is the
paradigm of an inherently equivocal connection between self and world—its
version of the ideology of realism sometimes dictating an effacement of the self
in relation to the world, sometimes authorizing an aggressive relation to the
world which celebrates the self. One side or the other of the connection is
always being rediscovered and championed.
