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Lee Witkin Interview 3 (1981)

When we started out [in 1968], there was a hundred and thirty years of material by people who had something to say whom no one had listened to. Part of the excitement of photography is that hundred and forty years. I think if you isolate the last five years of photography and look at what’s been done, it’s not that much more exciting than what’s been done in painting or any other field. […]

Lee Witkin Interview, 1 (1981)

At this stage the gallery is like an enormous, endless monster — it devours all of my time, and there’s no way I can do all of those things I just mentioned without having a bunch of people help me. That in itself triggers a whole new series of problems. […]