"We feel throughout the history of photography a chafing at its limits, an impatience with mere visuality, and a wish for some more intimate expression of the world's relation - but one somehow made available through the eyes. This makes the photographer into a strange kind of artist, at least in the modernist sense - part showman, part magician, part stage manager. The photographer does not "create" but harnesses and directs. The photograph itself is a piece of performance art, and the performer is light - passing through and encountering things in the world."
- Lyle Rexer, excerpt from The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography
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