Independence Day

"...photographers also share an understanding of the kind of luck known to gamblers and hunters. It is luck, based on desire, that takes the form of being in the right place at the right time...it is this very attentiveness to their own preoccupations, combined with an unusual alertness to the meaning of appearance, that places the more remarkable photographers at an intersection of events that are both beyond their control and of their own making."

--Photo historian Michael Lesy in Bearing Witness