" The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled, for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In back of ruined towns, cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes [...] In the minds of most people today the camera is a forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, rightly so. "
― John Steinbeck , A Russian Journal
![John Steinbeck quote : The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled, for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In back of ruined towns, cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes [...] In the minds of most people today the camera is a forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, rightly so.](/image/1750191.jpg)