William J. Mitchell Quotes
American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.
...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul.
There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.
Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.
