I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.