My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.

There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.