The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

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.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about!

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