That's probably right, but it's incidental to photographs that transcend the interest and desire of their maker and, in the process, shatter the idea of "freaks" as a stable category of experience.
Their confrontation helped shatter the idea that there can or should be one version of "how slavery was"; now we have a hundred different versions — some omnipresent, some long silenced, some real, some fictional — telling a messier, trickier, less comforting story.
"I hope to make you laugh, but I also hope to shatter the ideas you have," he said.
By the end of the 2.6 miles, they lines are about five feet apart, and shattering the idea that the flat looking playa is so level after all.
In 1963, for example, he was the co-author of "Beyond the Melting Pot," which shattered the idea that ethnic identities inevitably wear off in the United States.
The carnage of the Civil War, art experts say, had shattered the idea for many people that nature could solve mankind's ills and evils.
Eusebius McKaiser, an associate at the Wits Centre for Ethics in Johannesburg, said: "It shatters the idea that perpetrators and victims look a certain way.
"Shangri-La," which was filmed in China and shown at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan several years ago, simultaneously amplifies and shatters the idea of an exotic paradise.
There was only a small effect, he said approvingly, from "local risk factors".Over the past 18 months the possibility of national defaults has shattered the idea that all euro-area debt is equally risk-free in a particularly damaging way.
Peter Evans, Sea Watch director, said: "These confirmed sightings are shattering the idea that there is an exclusively west coast community of killer whales.
Anderson's book is a seminal work in California Indian environmental studies, and it thoroughly explores and shows the numerous ways California Indian peoples utilized their traditional knowledge, shattering the idea that any of the area we now call "protected wilderness" in California was ever an untouched landscape.
