Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying. - Susan Sontag

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence.

The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.