34;Photographers seem to need periodically to resist their own knowingness and to demystify what they do34;34;Photographs make normative an experience of art that is mediated, second-hand, intense in a different way.34;34;The traditional fine arts are elitist: their characteristic form is a single work, produced by an individual; they imply a hierarchy of subject matter in which some subjects are considered important, profound, noble, and other unimportant, trivial, base. the media are democratic: they weaken the role of the specialise producer or auteur (by using procedures based on chance, or mechanical techniques which anyone can learn; and by being corporate or collaborative efforts); they regard the whole world as material34;