I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.
I don't go around looking at my pictures.
I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.