“All interpretations of photography have hitherto been influenced by the aesthetic-philosophic concepts that circumscribed painting. These were for long held to be equally applicable to photographic practice. Up to now, photography has remained in rather rigid dependence on the traditional forms of painting; and like painting it has passed through the successive stages of all the various art “isms”; though in no sense to its advantage. (...)

In this connection it cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces “art” or not. Its own basic laws, not he opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth. (...)” LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY (Brooks Johnson, Photography Speaks – 150 Photographers on their Art, Aperture Foundation/Chrysler Museum of Art, New York, 2004)