Quote / Setting Sun

In novels, fiction is a given;
In paintings, a subjective re-composition ( or else the fabrication of fantasy) is the motif;
In theater or film, the actor's performance as imitation is understood.
But only Photographic Realism - which has its basic tenet the absolutely upstaged snapshot - has the potential to connect directly with societal reality.
In photography, there cannot be anything more impure or self-destructive than to imitate a painting , or to have a model pose.
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Photographic Realism and the Salon Picture/ p24 /Ken Domon


A photographer is both a passerby and a dweller. That said, regardless of the condition with which he looks, the process of continuing to look doesn't change. A photographer cannot cure like a doctor, cannot defend like a lawyer, cannot analyze like a scholar, cannot support like a priest, cannot bring about laughter like a comic storyteller, cannont entertain like a singer, but can merely look. That's good enough. Well, no, that's all there is. A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stare fixedly, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world. The human who bets on looking - that's is a photographer.
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The man who said I SAW IT I SAW IT and passed it by / p28-p29/ Shomei Tomatsu