The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.