At a time when we most need to scrutinize ourselves as things and beings, our eyes may have been too heavily violated. Photography may simply be art. It may simply be thought. This photography is certainly, to me, physiology. It is the best medium for me to scrutinize myself, as a thing and as a being, in the midst of drowning in the muddy river called society, and the best method to discover a clear running stream.
- Nobuyoshi Araki, 1974
(source There’s a Camera Between Man and Woman, 1978 pp.242-243)