Walter Benjamin
[Philosopher, critic, and theorist, b. 1892, Berlin, d. 1940, Port Bou, France.]
The creative in photography is capitulation to fashion. The world is beautiful—that is its watchword. Therein is unmasked the posture of photography that can endow a soup can with cosmic significance but cannot grasp a single one of the human connexions in which it exists, even where the most far-fetched subjects are concerned with saleability than insight. 
