对我们来说,存在着多种历史进程,它们具有复杂的惊人和有时候相互矛盾的意义;存在着各种艺术,它们的大部分价值来自我们对作为历史的时间的意识,摄影即是如此。For us, there are historical processes with awesomely complex and sometimes contradictory meanings; and arts which draw much of their value from our consciousness of time as history, like photography.