When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.

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.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

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

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