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[...] the Photograph is indifferent to all intermediaries: it does not invent; it is authentication itself; the (rare) artifices it permits are not probative; they are, on the contrary, trick pictures: the photograph is laborious only when it fakes. It is a prophecy in reverse: like Cassandra, but eyes fixed on the past, Photography never lies: or rather, it can lie as to the meaning of the thing, being by nature 'tendentious', never as to its existence. Impotent with regard to general ideas (to fiction), its force nonetheless superior to everything the human mind can or can have conceived to assure us of reality - but also this reality is never anything but a contingency ('so much, no more').

- R. B.