Reading John Szarkowski's  "The Photographer's Eye" containing what he considers five main issues of photography, I found that a few were very helpful when beginning photography for the first time. The introduction was also very insightful, one quote he used was by Baudelaire, he said, "This industry, by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy." I always half thought this theory, that photography took away from art for example painting a scenery to just taking a picture. This is not true all the time though, some photographers are true artist that can really capture a moment with a picture but it takes an accumulation of understanding the detail, the subject, timing, vantage point and choosing just the right frame. Understanding the detail was one of the more interesting issues to me, Szarkowski said that "If photography could not be read as stories, they could be read as symbols." Reading that sentence made me think to my American History class in high school where my teacher told us that during WWII the newspapers controlled the public with simply pictures. John Szarkowski must have had a similar recognition with WWII because he also quoted a photographer from that time period, Robert Capa, who said "If your pictures aren't good enough you're not close enough." The frame was also an issue that structs me, I never realized that photographers have to make such a hard decision, to decide what should be in from out. Time was the most philosophical issue he stated. Szarkowski said "Photography alludes to the past and the future only in so far as they exist in the present, the past through its surviving relics, the future though prophecy visible in the present."