If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

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

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.