“…Thompson has combined the photographs with quotations, each pertaining to the subject, from sources as diverse as Shakespeare and Stendhal, Aristotle and Heidegger, Walker Evans and Lincoln Kirstein. They suggest a conversation intended to concentrate the viewer’s attention, stimulate her thinking, and expand his curiosity about what it is that pictures – and the act of looking at pictures – might be capable of accomplishing…”

“…Walker Evans American photographs…”

“…Mit den Mitteln einer sehr detaillierten und »dichten« Beschreibung der Fotografien Walker Evans' werden die von Evans vor dem Hintergrund sozialemanzipatorischer Bestrebungen vorgenommenen Manipulationen der vorgefundenen Wirklichkeit dekonstruiert. …”