What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.

Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.

When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.

I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.

I had an agent. When [Edward] Steichen was doing "The Family of Man", I went up to the office one day. I think Wayne Miller, who assisted Steichen with "The Family of Man," was up there and pulled out a bunch of pictures. So I got a message: "Take these pictures, call Steichen, make an appointment and take these pictures up there." And that's how I met him.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.