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Lee Witkin Interview 3 (1981)

When we started out [in 1968], there was a hundred and thirty years of material by people who had something to say whom no one had listened to. Part of the excitement of photography is that hundred and forty years. I think if you isolate the last five years of photography and look at what’s been done, it’s not that much more exciting than what’s been done in painting or any other field. […]

Lee Witkin Interview 2 (1981)

You don’t have to deal with people you don’t admire. I have severed a lot of relationships with people whose behavior patterns and philosophies were not mine. I’m not saying that they were criminal, or wrong, or even unethical; they were just not on my ethical wavelength, and I could not deal with that. […]

Jill Freedman (1939-2019): A Farewell

Does it strike anyone else but me as strange that historians will go scrabbling around in the leavings of defunct, reticent, privileged amateurs like Alice Austen and Marjorie Content rather than grapple with the significant, published output of a living, breathing photographer who has functioned independently from the beginning and, without family wealth or husband to rely on, found ways of supporting herself and her work outside the academy and the grants system? […]