It is to be understood that worker photographers intending to exhibit … are to concentrate on the photo of class struggle and proletarian life. No bourgeois portraiture, nudes, landscapes, still lifes, will be exhibited.
– instruction to exhibitors to "Proletarian Photo" exhibition, (New Masses VII, No. 1, June 1931, p. 22)
[cited in: "Photography/Politics: One", Photography Workshop, London 1979, p. 95]