Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can make virtually anything look good. Which means, of course, that she or he can make virtually anything look bad - or look just about any way at all. After all, that is the real work of photography: making things look, deciding how a thing is to appear in the image.

Depth of field: essays on photography, mass media, and lens culture (ed. Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1998) - ISBN: 9780826318152