Photowork – style and genre as limiting concepts

I am reading Photowork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, edited by Sasha Wolf. It is an instructive little book for the photographer. The answers to the questions about style and genre are especially revealing. There are hardly any photographers who care about style and genre. Many reject the concepts. Fun for analysts, in retrospect, at best. Certainly, these are not things the photographer should be concerned with while doing the work. Before you know it, they become self-imposed creative constraints.