The Ogre

"A hundred years ago, when anesthesia was first introduced into the operating theater, some surgeons protested. 'Surgery is dead,' said one of them. 'It rested on a union of suffering between patient and doctor. Anesthesia reduces it to the level of dissecting corpses.' It is rather similar with photography. Telescopic lenses that enable one to operate from a distance, without any contact with the subject, kill what is most moving about taking pictures: the slight suffering that is experienced, together and from opposite poles, by the person who knows he is being photographed and by the person who knows he is know to be committing a predatory act, to be hijacking an image."