“(...) With Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, came a new approach. Soulfulness was taboo, romance derided, anecdote scorned; beauty of the subject was superseded by beauty of design, and the relation of ideas gave place to the relation of forms. Weird and suprising things were put upon canvas; stark mechanical objects revealed an unguessed dignity; commonplace articles showed curves and angles which could be repeated with varying pattern of a fugue. (...)”        MARGARET WATKINS (Brooks Johnson, Photography Speaks – 150 Photographers on their Art, Aperture Foundation/Chrysler Museum of Art, New York, 2004)