When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

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.

As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

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

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.

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.