Clement Greenberg Quote

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949 (ed. University of Chicago Press, 1988) - ISBN: 9780226306223