[b. 1941] American Art Critic and Theorist
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Photography is an imprint or transfer of the real; it is a photochemically processed trace casually connected to that thing in the world to which it refers in a way parallel to that of fingerprints or footprints or the rings of water that cold glasses leave on tables.
"Popular Photography and Imaging" December 2007 (PDEF version), p.65