WALKER EVANS:
"Take Atget, whose work I now know very well. (I didn't know it at all for awhile.) In his work you do feel what some people call poetry. I do call it that also, but a better word for it, to me, is, well - when Atget does even a tree root, he transcends that thing. And by God somebody else does not. There are millions of photographs made all the time, and they don't transcend anything and they're not anything. In this sense photography's a very difficult art and probably depends on a gift, and unconscious gift sometimes, an extreme talent."
From American Suburb X
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