"Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context."

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Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life.

— Gisele Freund