Photography in America is wide open in its possibilities, free in its potentials, heroic in its achievements and generous in its recognition and rewards to photographers.

Bill Jay "A Manifesto for Art Photography" {excerpts of a lecture given by Bill Jay on July 3 [year unknown, probably 1976], at the Newport Art Gallery, Newport, Gwent (England), under the aegis of the Documentary Photography Course at Gwent College of Higher Education.}