Photography is strong exactly where painting and drawing weak, that is to say in the precise reproduction of objects, particularly as regards surface qualities.

on opening exhibition of advertising photographs in July 1929, The Times, 5 October 1929, p. 13 [cited in: “Germany - The New Photography 1927 – 33’ (Documents and essays selected and edited by David Mellor), Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1978, p. 123]