Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.