"Photography is too easy in a superficial way, and in consequence is treated slightingly by people who ought to know better. One does not consider Music an inferior art simply because little Mary can play a scale. What we need in photography is more sincerity, more respect for our medium and less respect for its decayed conventions."

Alvin Langdon Coburn, in: The Future of Pictorial Photography, 1916 (via conscientious)

I can’t believe this was written in 1916…

(via photographsonthebrain)