A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.

I was a hired gun, more or less.

I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

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