I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.