There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.

I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.