I was just checking out Steven Klein's awesome website when I came across this quote kind of odd for a photographer to be so careless about his work isn't it? never the less found it an interesting quote:

"There is a desire to link photography with painting. My background is painting and I feel there is no connection between the two. It is as if the camera is linked to a sin, producing a bastard art form that we feel we must link to the past in order to give it credentials. I don't want those credentials. I have no need to apologize for photography. My archives exist only for sound business reasons; otherwise my work would be disposable. And there lies the contradiction, for I am a private person not an exhibitionist, I am a person who lives for the future, not the past; I am standing behind a camera in order that I can extend myself in front of it"

Isn't that all the reason we're all behind the camera? because we appreciate beauty and art however we dont want to be "in" it???