Perhaps that is why photography, in its dawning decades, had a particularly poignant role for individuals and groups who were largely invisible to society. Before photography turned into excessive “aesthetic consumerism,” long prior to the narcissistic golden age of the selfie, it was a miraculous medium that granted one simple, fundamental human wish - the desire to be seen and, in the act of seeing, to be understood. Any form of excess can usually be traced to the seed of a basic human longing.
