“What kind of work…is the portfolio asking me to do? One way to answer this question is to say that work is the work of judgment. Faced with the semiotic uncertainty of these pictures, we must adjudicate. It is striking to me that although the portfolio is titled The Judge and the Attorney, no photograph in the portfolio is captioned The Judge.… Are we to infer that the judges were expelled from the category bearing their name because of the extraordinary general complicity of the judiciary with the rise of fascism in Germany […]? Or are we to infer that adjudication is what brings us into the circuitry of the portfolio?”
From People of the Twentieth Century: Group IV, Portfolio 22, Photograph 3