“It is ‘straight’ photography …. Every object is regarded head-on with the unsparing frankness of a Russian ikon or a Flemish portrait …. “This is neither a baroque nor a ...

Some photographers and critics have said that photography should take advantage of what lenses do best, and be "straight," representing the world as it is. Others have thought that photographs ...

And his writings, especially on the uses of propagandist images and the limits of straight photography — “a good beginning but not an end in itself” — have proved to be amazingly prescient ...