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When you say “documentary,” you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder…. That’s a real document. You see are is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore are is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I’m called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
— “Katz/Evans interview” Art in America, April 1979. quoted in Walker Evans Walker Evans at work (New York: Harper and Row, 1982), 216.
