Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is "charming." Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.

Everybody's entitled to their own experience.

I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.

In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.