Has photography gone too far? It would be cowardly to answer the question I have posed with a time-worn and evasive ‘Yes and no,’ just as it would be flippant to answer it with ‘Who cares’? and ignorant to reply ‘I do not know.’ I think there can be no question but that photography has gone too far, but I feel confident that it can get back, if it wants to. In that phrase ‘if it wants to’ which I have italicized, there might seem to be a certain ominous significance, but as a matter of fact there isn’t at all; I italicized it simply because I wanted to sharpen the interest of my readers, if any are still sticking with me. The whole subject of photography has to be italicized for the average reader or he will turn to some other subject quicker than you can say ‘Alfred Stieglitz.’

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