I'm not the slightest bit embarrassed to be working on my thesis this Friday evening, which is an indication that I haven't been working on it as diligently as I should. Also I know no one reads this. Also I'm not by myself, so it's not that bad.
Anyway, here's a bit from a book aptly called "Press Photography: Reporting with a Camera" that sums up what I'm looking at with this whole project:
"But the favorable court decisions [for press freedom] have not entirely relieved the minds of photographers and editors, for there still remains the moral question involved. One newsman put the question this way: 'What business has a photographer to make a living by treating human tragedy as a natural resource?'"
Here's another quote, from a different book, from Dorothea Lange regarding her famous Great Depression photograph "Migrant Mother":
"There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that pictures might help her, and so she helped me."
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