Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

I can't hold a camera anymore.