Literally anyone can pick up a camera and take a snapshot. Most can even take a pretty good snapshot. But to take a photo­graph requires a bit more. A photo­graph does not document, or if it does, it does so only acci­den­tally. The photog­rapher must not seek to capture a scene, a moment, an object, a person. The photog­rapher, as against the snap­shootist, extracts a narrow, carefully delimited slice of light. The skill with which he carves makes him a tech­nician. The slice he selects makes him an artist.