Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)