“After a century and a quarter, photography's ability to challenge and reject our schematized notions of reality is still fresh. In his monograph on Francis Bacon, Lawrence Alloway speaks of the effect of photography on that painter: "The evasive nature of his imagery, which is shocking but obscure, like accident or atrocity photographs, is arrived at by using photography's huge repertory of visual images... Uncaptioned news photographs, for instance, often appear as momentous and extraordinary... Bacon used this property of photography to subvert the clarity of pose of figures in traditional painting.””

-John Szarkowski, the Photographer’s Eye