Snippets from Long Life Cool white

"Roberta Smith, writing in the New York Times, has aptly characterized trends in image making (very large, staged color photographs) as the "Pre-Raphaelite painting of our day." The problem, to state it baldly, is one of stilt coupled with bloat. Absent from these oversized tableaux is the inherently surrealist, contingent, "found" quality of the vernacular photograph, the quality my quartet of writers so eloquently identifies and holds so dear. My goal is to reclaim this critical history of ideas in relation to contemporary photographs, and to understand how the notion of the accident might be relevant." -Moyra Davey, from, Long Life Cool White, P. 81